Palm Beach County spent $13.7million on security for President Trump and his family during the 27 trips they made to the Mar-a-Lago resort between his election in November 2016 through Easter of last year, it has been revealed.
Records indicate that the county has been reimbursed almost $10million by the federal government for expenses that accumulated through September 2018, The Palm Beach Post is reporting.
The county is now waiting to be paid back the remaining balance of $3.8million which was accrued during the course of fiscal year 2019 that ended in October.
A county official told the Post that most of the money was spent on overtime for the sheriff’s deputies.
‘I think that the program is operating well,’ Assistant County Administrator Todd J. Bonlarron said of the federal government’s reimbursement program.
Law enforcement officers fired multiple shots at a vehicle that crashed through two security checkpoints Friday at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, police said.
Two women were taken into custody shortly after the incident at the Palm Beach resort, which Trump is scheduled to visit later Friday, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department said.
The incident does not appear related to terrorism, and no one was injured, officials said.
Police said they arrested a 30-year-old Connecticut resident, Hannah Roemhild, who allegedly was driving the SUV alone, without a passenger, when it crashed through the barriers at speeds in excess of 70 mph, driving on the wrong side of the road. Charges against her are pending.
Roemhild had been seen at another nearby resort behaving oddly shortly before leading a police officer on a chase that continued into Mar-a-Lago. Police say she may have been impaired.
She eventually was spotted and tackled by police at a nearby motel.
As agents sprayed an SUV with bullets while it plowed through two security checkpoints near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, the driver managed to elude authorities in her bullet-riddled car.
Her next stop: the West Palm Beach airport to pick up her mother, according to sources familiar with the Friday incident.
Hannah Roemhild, 30, a trained opera soprano singer, picked up her mother at Palm Beach International Airport and together they checked into a local motel, where authorities tracked her down and arrested her that afternoon.
The windows of Roemhild’s SUV and the body of the vehicle were shredded from bullets shot by both Secret Service and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies as she breached the roadway security barricades and swerved around concrete barriers past Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, according to sources.
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club that is his primary residence, is "currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." Sources tell CBS News the search is connected to a Justice Department investigation of claims by the National Archives that it found 15 boxes of records including classified material at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.
"Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," Trump said in a statement. "After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate."
Trump said, "they even broke into my safe!" A source close to Trump confirmed to CBS News that the former president was not at Mar-a-Lago on Monday and two senior Trump sources said it didn't appear that Trump would be heading to Florida.
In February, the National Archives asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump's handling of White House records. The National Archives said some of the documents Trump turned over to them had been ripped up and taped back together.
On Monday, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman released photos from her upcoming book that appeared to show at least two instances where Trump tried to flush documents down the toilet.
Under the Presidential Records Act, documents received and sent by the president are required to be preserved by the office.
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