GOP lawmakers blast Hunter Biden Secret Service detail’s $30k monthly rent for mansion

A number of Republican lawmakers blasted first son Hunter Biden’s Secret Service element after it was revealed it was shelling out $30,000 monthly in lease for a mansion.

ABC Information reported on Monday that the Secret Service element defending the president’s son has, for over a yr, been shelling out the five-figure lease for the Malibu mansion close to the $20,000 monthly mansion the place Biden has been residing. 

The Secret Service typically rents properties close to its protectees as a part of safety operations, so the association is not unprecedented, however the excessive value required to guard Hunter Biden nonetheless left many Republicans surprised. 

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“Secret Service paying over $30K monthly for Malibu mansion to guard Hunter Biden. The luxurious rental property has ‘attractive ocean views,’ in accordance with its itemizing,” Republican Examine Committee chairman Jim Banks of Indiana tweeted.

California Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican on the Home Judiciary Committee and former Home Oversight Committee chairman, quipped the “value of defending” Biden was now “being shared by Large Tech, the mainstream media” and, now, the American taxpayers.

Former Republican congressman Darrell Issa speaks throughout a information convention in El Cajon, California.
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“Secret Service is reportedly paying $30,000 a month to lease a Malibu mansion to maintain watch on Hunter Biden,” Issa tweeted. “Appears like the price of defending Hunter is being shared by Large Tech, the mainstream media … and now the taxpayers as nicely.”

The property was chosen by the Secret Service for its location close to the Malibu mansion Biden has been residing in for over a yr, in accordance with ABC Information. 

The revelation comes amid a probe into the president’s son’s taxes that continues to compound.