Doj Spent Nearly $1 Million On Banners Of Trump’s Face And Other Refurbishments, Documents Show

The Department of Justice has reportedly spent astir a cardinal dollars hanging elephantine banners featuring President Donald Trump’s look connected its office successful Washington, D.C.

The DOJ is based retired of nan Robert F Kennedy Department of Justice Building.

The section reportedly signed a statement for nan banners successful January for an "RFK Beautification Project" that included cleaning nan building's exterior walls, upgrading its exterior lighting, and hanging nan Trump-visaged "Celebratory Banners," according to records obtained by Politico.

The DOJ spent a full of $892,192.07 connected nan project, according to nan documents. An further $54,768 was spent connected nan task nether a "supplemental agreement" this week, nan records show.

The statement items showing precisely really overmuch money nan section spent connected nan Trump banners were redacted, according to Politico. The DOJ cited nan protection of "trade secrets" to warrant nan redaction.

“The banners were portion of a broader beautification task for nan historical RFK building, executed nether an existing DOJ building contract,” a DOJ spokesperson told nan outlet. “We are proud astatine this Department of Justice to observe 250 years of our awesome country, and our historical activity to make America safe again astatine President Trump’s direction.”

The DOJ's office isn't nan only building successful nan nation's superior that's sported Trump's look connected its exterior. The first of nan banners — which has since been removed — was hung astatine nan Department of Agriculture earlier this year. That banner hung adjacent different 1 depicting Abraham Lincoln and costs nan agency $16,400.

The president has besides been trying to adhd his sanction to various Washington, D.C. sites. He added — and was past forced to region — his sanction to nan Kennedy Center, and slapped his moniker connected nan extracurricular of nan U.S. Institute of Peace.

Trump's banners were produced by Llorente Enterprises, based successful adjacent Alexandria, Virginia. In summation to his face, nan banners extracurricular nan DOJ see nan building "MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN."

Senator Adam Schiff, who is captious of nan president and nan banners, has been investigating agencies utilizing nan images.

He said successful a connection past week that he recovered a $39,000 statement for nan Department of nan Interior's banners that characteristic Trump alongside George Washington.

The legislator said nan banners were a discarded of nationalist taxation dollars.

“Not only is this a unspeakable discarded of Americans’ hard-earned money, it is intelligibly against nan law,” he said. “Congress has agelong outlawed spending taxation dollars connected propaganda and self-aggrandizement and an eight-story-high Donald Trump caput surely qualifies arsenic propaganda.”