House Democrats have accused former President Donald Trump of receiving more than $7.8 million from foreign governments through payments to the Trump Organization while in the White House.
The Democratic Party said most of the money came from the Chinese government and state-owned entities, while the rest came from 19 other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.
The House Oversight Committee's minority staff on Thursday alleges that the former president repeatedly violated the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which states that federal employees may not accept gifts or cash from foreign state actors without Congressional approval. published a 156-page report detailing the
“Former President Donald Trump failed to divest from his business empire after promising the “biggest infomercial in political history,'' exchanging millions of dollars in payments from some of the most corrupt countries for his companies. “They have repeatedly violated the U.S. Constitution by allowing the United States to accept the Earth,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the committee's top Democrat.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina State Capitol on January 28, 2023 in Columbia, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Limited records available to the committee show that during Donald Trump’s time in office, he received more than $5.5 million from the Chinese government and Chinese state-owned enterprises, and many more from 19 other foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. It turns out he received millions of dollars,'' through only four of the more than 500 organizations he owned: the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia. ”
Along with the report, Watch Democrats also produced more than 400 pages of partially redacted documents from Trump's former accounting firm, Mazars USA LLC.
They accused the former president of allowing businesses to profit in foreign currency while suggesting he was providing benefits to those countries in return.
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Much of the investigation appears to be focused on Trump Organization hotels in Las Vegas, New York and Washington, D.C., as well as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Some of the payments appear to be related to short-term hotel stays during Trump's presidency, including room and board costs.
Other cash flows are for long-term contracts. The report said Trump received more than $615,000 from Saudi Arabia during his time in office through a lease on the 45th floor of Trump Tower and a stay at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Trump Tower is fenced off as security forces take measures ahead of former President Donald Trump's arrival for a court hearing in New York on April 3, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The Indian government spent at least $282,764 on Trump real estate during the Trump administration, including the cost of two Trump Towers.
It was not immediately clear whether all contracts and agreements regarding payments to Trump Tower were made before the former president took office or began his 2016 campaign. The report noted that Mathers only passed on information about Trump Tower in 2018.
A spokesperson for the Trump Organization said that Chinese government-backed bank ICBC “was a tenant in Trump Tower that signed a 20-year office lease in 2008, almost 10 years before President Trump took office.” did.
The spokesperson also said that “during President Trump's tenure, all foreign profits were donated to the U.S. Treasury to support our facilities.”
“House Democrats are desperate to save face for Hunter Biden, but there are significant conflicts between the vice president's son and family and the man who leased commercial office space to a foreign company 10 years ago (2008 to be exact).'' “It's disingenuous to extract money from countries like China, Ukraine and Romania while not providing tangible, tangible goods and services,” a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
“We have no ability or feasibility to prevent someone from booking through a third party such as Expedia, so we end up voluntarily donating our nauseatingly covered profits each year. Masu.”
The report acknowledged that the overall findings were based on a small portion of Trump's financial records, and Raskin blamed Republicans for not getting the rest.
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“While the numbers and constitutional violations in this report are shocking, we still don't know the amount of foreign payments Donald Trump received, or even the total number of countries that made payments to him and his companies during his presidency. Speaker James Comer and House Republicans suppressed further evidence of the Trump family's astonishing corruption,” Raskin said.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News Digital, “Democrats' continued obsession with former President Trump is beyond parody. “The Biden family is not like that.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“The Bidens and their associates made more than $24 million using the Biden name in China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Romania. No service was provided,” Comer said.
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Comer is one of three committee chairs currently leading the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, specifically examining whether Biden and his family benefited from foreign transactions while he was vice president. There is.
In addition to the payments mentioned above, Democrats say Trump received $465,744 from Qatar for Trump Tower, $303,372 from Kuwait for Trump Tower and President Trump's DC hotel, and $24 from Malaysia for the DC hotel. He accused the company of accepting $8,962.
