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Good on Trump for not taking a salary, but – about those millionaire kids

There is at least one thing I can commend Donald Trump for: he doesn't accept the presidential salary. With his vast wealth, it is a appropriate gesture of goodwill.

Now it's time to extend that goodwill further by using those billions to pay for the outrageous security costs for his children and in-laws. I fully support taxpayer-funded security for the first family but include millionaire middle-aged children and in-laws who have long had their own private security seems like pulling a fast one on the taxpayer. After all, swamp cannot cast out swamp.

This story was originally published October 23, 2017 at 4:09 PM with the headline "Good on Trump for not taking a salary, but – about those millionaire kids."

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