Sometimes, it's the penny-ante stuff that makes you the angriest. From Business Insider:

The Irish Times first reported last month that the Doonbeg resort in County Clare in western Ireland was paid over 100,000 Euros ($111,000) for the extra 3,820 police officers hired to protect the president over his two-day state visit. The large contingent of security officers working overtime cost the country over 7.4 million Euros ($8.2 million). Among the charges were over 904,000 Euros ($1 million) for the accommodation and food provided to the guards, along with 14,000 Euros ($15,500) for snack bags distributed to police over five days. Notably, Fahrenthold highlights, police were charged 875 Euros ($975) for "additional tea and coffee due to inclement weather."

He overcharged the people tasked with protecting him for tea and snacks. Roll that around in your head. He stiffed the cops for biscuits in the rain. What a feckin' deadbeat your man is.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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