So what?
He had his wife, his mother, and his sister to visit the ancestral home of his family on his mother’s side.
From the beginning, he planned to pay the costs of his family members. Unlike someone we shall not mention here.
No hotel in Dublin had been vetted for Pence in terms of security, Short said, The Hill reported. Doonbeg, which President Donald Trump himself had previously visited, was a logical alternative.
“They had done all the advance work. And the facility, we knew, was safe and protected. And if you’re going to stay in the Doonbeg area with a footprint of our size, that is the one facility that can accommodate that,” Short said.
The trip followed “normal protocol” and was given the State Department’s approval, he said.
And the property is in a trust controlled b Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
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