U.S. taxpayers have been paying $3,000 a month since September 2017 for the Secret Service to rent a bathroom in Ivanka and Jared’s neighbor’s house because the couple doesn’t want to share a toilet with the very people tasked with protecting their lives, according to the Washington Post.
More than $100,000 has been spent on a basement studio in a house near the family’s $15,000/month, six and a half bath rental property just so agents have a place to go to the bathroom while on duty.
But not only that.
Sometimes agents are forced to wander through the neighborhood and find a local business that will allow them to use the restroom to relieve themselves.
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“It’s the first time I ever heard of a Secret Service detail having to go to these extremes to find a bathroom,” a local law enforcement official familiar with the situation tells WaPo.
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All this happened after Ivanka and Jared’s neighbors complained about an outdoor porta-potty being set up at the end of the block for agents to use.
“When they put the porta-potty right outside on the sidewalk we weren’t allowed to walk on, that was when people in the neighborhood said, ‘That’s really not acceptable’,” former neighbor Dianne Bruce says.
“These poor people,” she remembers thinking about the day the porta-potty was hauled away. “What, are they going to have to get in their cars?”
A spokesperson at the White House denies that Ivanka and Jared refused Secret Service agents access to any of the six toilets in their mansion, saying it was the agency’s decision to rent their own bathroom off-site.
But the local law enforcement official says that’s simply not true and that the family did, indeed, request agents find somewhere else to go while protecting them in their home, declaring all seven of their toilets “off-limits.”
A spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment on the matter.
UPDATE: A previous version of this story stated Ivanka had seven toilets. She actually only has six. We regret the error.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mister P
I am not the least surprised that ivy is like the lady in the movie The Help.
JustLarry
Relieving oneself is a human right, to deny this to anyone is breaking the law and I think the secret service men assigned to them should sue for millions.
Max
the Trumps don’t believe in human rights at all.
Cam
They’re there to protect them and yet they couldn’t even let them use ONE of the six toilets in the House. What nasty horrible people.
They probably didn’t want for Ivanka to get caught with her girlfriend, or Jared in his mother’s clothes.
JustLarry
Aubrey O’Day has PROOF Ivanka is a carpet muncher! We need to go onto Aubrey’s twitters and instagrams and forcer her to show us!
graphicjack
@justlarry – ew jesus gross… we don’t want her on our team, however, when you consider how Daddy Scump has objectified her and potentially abused her, I think that would turn almost any woman off men. And let’s face it, Jared is hardly a sex symbol.
jcool
ivanka doesn’t want anyone to know she pees standing up
Wolfwalk
Thank God we won’t have to pay for any government services for her or her mangy siblings after Jan 20.
ShiningSex
sadly that’s not true. they get protection for life. look up how much crap we will continue to pay for them.
jcool
to shining sex- i believe i read that secret service is only for ex-pres and wife, kids are on their own. hence the plot of land on an island
Kevan1
I believe if they impeach Trump after Jan. 20th and both House and Senate agree to impeach.Trump will lose all those protections, lifetime insurance and any other perks. I could be wrong. I wonder if Nixon lost all those perks. The difference is Nixon resigned before he was thrown out.
Bubbleandsqueal
They have to take a bullet for this ungrateful Ceckless Funt.
ohiogreg
I say if she can’t let them use 1 bathroom in her house, then she’s not important enough to be protected. If it was me I would just pee on her most prized plant in her yard.
cubcmh
She only gets (secret service) protection for (less than) 6 more days. But seriously, if I were one of the agents I pee on her roses.
ShiningSex
actually sadly you’re wrong. they get secret service for life. they get quite a bit after he leaves office.
missvamp
this family is the absolute worst.
Heywood Jablowme
From the Washington Post story on this:
“a Secret Service supervisor from the Trump/Kushner detail left an unpleasant mess in the Obama bathroom at some point before the fall of 2017…”
Hmmm, a political “statement”?
BigJohnSF
The lease on this place is up soon.
throwaway82
If anyone can make me believe in lizard people it’s her.
Prowelsh56
and…if they are not their to take the bullet for her? she too, a special kind of deplorable.
JohnInDallas
They should take a dump inside their place right by the front door. Take a dump on Trump!
Openminded
Not discounting the story at all, but if taxpayers were paying for the neighbors basement bathroom, why would secret service have any reason to wander the neighborhood to use the bathroom?
JustLarry
Are you saying this isn’t the truth? I’m sure the Washington Post has evidence. There are probably allot of Secret Service agents in the house and if more than one have to go at the same time they need more than one bathroom. It absolutely makes sense to me.
Cam
What a shock, the same “Not a troll account” tries the “Not discounting the story BUT….”tactic to try to defend Ivanka.
We all read the story, and we all saw that the rented the basement LATER, you know, after Ivanka wouldn’t let them in the house and they’d tried the portapotty.
Give up this screename, you’ve exposed it’s agenda too many time.
Openminded
@JustLarry. No, I’m not saying the story is a lie. I’m just wondering why they needed to “wander the neighborhood to use the bathroom”. I would assume to maintain actual security for Ivanka & family, the secret service agents could surely wait their turn to use the single bathroom they had rented. It ain’t like it takes that long for a person to finish their business, especially military trained people. They surely rotate breaks for meals, restroom breaks, etc. It just seems obvious to me that you can’t be providing security if you are out roaming the neighborhood.
@Cam, You remind me more of Trump every time you comment. You think you can spout ignorant, unsubstantiated lies and bully someone into not posting their honest opinion. Just like Trump is about to, please GO AWAY!
buckhill2
Let me check something- republicans are supposedly fiscally conservative. Which should mean don’t spend money you don’t need to. It really means spend money to make me (Trump & entourage) comfortable & controlling over the little people.
Cam
Republicans only lie about being fiscally conservative to keep Democrats from enacting any programs THEY want.
When Republicans are in office they regularly blow out the budgets, then Democrats come in, and back down to Republican’s screaming “Fiscally conservative!” and end up paying down the deficit so republicans can come back in and blow it out again.
gillenbowler
If they impeach her dad and it sticks he loses everything and we won’t have to protect there sorry asses the rest of there life. It will save a lot of money and headaches.