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US First Lady Melania Trump raised $ 95,000 at a hotel in Cairo at the end of her African goodwill tour last month, according to federal records.
It was more than President Donald Trump's tax bill for a two-day stay with his entourage in Scotland after a visit this summer to England, said Quartz, who was the first to report the Cairo note of the first lady.
First Lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, was furious that the initial report – later picked up by The Hill – indicates that Melania Trump spent the night at Semiramis Intercontinental Cairo. In fact, she only spent six hours there, Grisham told Quartz and The Hill in angry posts on Twitter.
Grisham complains that "unfortunately, the damage caused by this false statement is done, "referring to The Hill – as if the fact that it cost taxpayers $ 95,000 for a mere six-hour visit instead of an overnight stay was somehow more understandable. Grisham also called the Quartz report "irresponsible journalism".
Nevertheless, federal records indicate that $ 95,000 was donated to the Cairo hotel on September 30.
Grisham told People magazine that his team was searching for the source of the number, which was reported by the state department and labeled as "100% obligated". She did not dispute the amount.
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The hotel's bill is not detailed in the federal archives, but it has probably also covered the costs for those around him, including the protection of the secret services. The purpose of the expense is simply indicated as follows: "FLOTUS visit hotel hotel".
The people who responded to Grisham on Twitter were confused about his argument.
Melania Trump stopped in Cairo after visiting children from orphanages and schools, meeting with leaders and watching animals during her tour of Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.
The old model has been criticized by the media and social media for its outdated fashion choices "Out of Africa," including a white-marrow helmet considered by many as a painful symbol of colonialist Africa.
She later complained that people should "focus on what I'm doing and not on what I'm wearing".
In June, at a provocative fashionable choice, when she was visiting immigrant children detained in Texas, she was wearing a jacket that said on the back: "I'm getting into She said later in an interview with ABC: "It was a direct message to the" leftist media that criticized me. " She added, "I want to show them that I'm doing nothing."
Grisham then insisted in a statement: "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message.
The US government bill for the president's two-night stay this summer in his own Turnberry golf complex in Scotland, including accommodation for his son Eric, the chief of staff John Kelly and the associate of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a student at $ 68,000, reported the Scottish newspaper, citing US spending records.
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