Trump's businesses received millions from foreign entities during his presidency

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Trump's businesses received millions from foreign entities during his presidency, House report says

WILL STEAKIN

Thu, January 4, 2024 at 11:48 AM CST·2 min read

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Former President Donald Trump's businesses received millions of dollars from foreign entities located in 20 different countries during his presidency, according to a new report released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight committee.

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, released the report and provided documents from Trump's former accounting firm that show that 20 governments, including China and Saudi Arabia, paid at least $7.8 million during Trump's presidency to business entities that included Trump International Hotels in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, and Trump Towers in New York.

The 156-page report by House Democrats is entitled "White House For Sale."

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In the forward to the report, Raskin wrote, "By elevating his personal financial interests and the policy priorities of corrupt foreign powers over the American public interest, former President Trump violated both the clear commands of the Constitution and the careful precedent set and observed by every previous commander in chief."

The reports says that, according to "limited records" obtained by the committee, Saudi Arabia likely paid Trump-owned business at least $615,422 during Trump's first term in office.

"While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was making these payments, President Trump chose Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first overseas trip -- a choice that was unprecedented among U.S. presidents," the report says.

PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, Dec. 19, 2023. (Scott Morgan/Reuters, FILE)

The report claims that the payments violated the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, a rule that bars the president and other federal officials from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments without Congressional approval.

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed lawsuits accusing Trump of profiting from his presidency, on the grounds that he is no longer in office.

"Through entities he owned and controlled, President Trump accepted, at a minimum, millions of dollars in foreign emoluments in violation of the United States Constitution," Democrats write in the report. "The documents obtained from former President Trump's accounting firm demonstrate that four Trump-owned properties together collected, at the least, millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments and officials that violated the Constitution's prohibition on emoluments 'of any kind whatever' from foreign governments."

ABC News has reached out to Trump's representatives for comment on the report.

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[homersapien 11,461]

No mention of the two $ Billion provided to Trump's son-in-law?

Edited January 4 by homersapien

[aubiefifty 16,931]

15 hours ago, homersapien said:

No mention of the two $ Billion provided to Trump's son-in-law?

they are hypocrits homer.they lust after fake crap and turn a vblind eye to their own party.

[AURex 2,036]

It's perfectly OK if Trump and his family received millions from foreign governments. No problem.

If a Biden family member received a nickel, obviously that is a HUGE issue deserving of HUGE congressional investigations and HUGE noteworthy press releases and HUGE congress critter blabbering.

 

[Mikey 16,757]

Difference being, the Trump organization is an actual business. The Biden setup is nothing but pay for play.

[homersapien 11,461]

2 minutes ago, Mikey said:

Difference being, the Trump organization is an actual business. The Biden setup is nothing but pay for play.

Obviously, you don't know how the mafia operates.