Report: Trump Businesses Received Millions From ‘Unsavory Regimes’
Report: Trump Businesses Received Millions From ‘Unsavory Regimes’
According to a report released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Donald Trump’s businesses allegedly received millions of dollars from 20 foreign governments, including “some of the world’s most unsavory regimes,” while the former president was in office. The report, “White House For Sale: How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off President Trump,” results from a years-long investigation.
The Emoluments Clause in the Constitution disallows federal officials, including the president, from accepting money, payment or gifts “of any kind whatever” from foreign governments unless permission is granted from Congress. Trump never sought such permission.
Congressional investigators found Trump and his family received “at least” $7.8 million, much of the money from China but also from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Malaysia and others. The payments were made to Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.; Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas; Trump Tower, Fifth Avenue, New York; and Trump World Tower, New York.
“These payments were made while these governments were promoting specific foreign policy goals with the Trump administration and even, at times, with President Trump himself, and as they were requesting specific actions from the United States to advance their own national policy objectives.”
— Congressional Report, “White House For Sale”
Despite requests from Democrats and Republicans after his 2016 win, Trump refused to divest his financial holdings and place his businesses in blind trusts, as every president since the 1970s had done.
House Democrats think this may be the proverbial tip of the iceberg, because when they lost their majority in 2022, Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, was released from having to provide any documents related to the foreign gifts. Democrats were able to see only a small portion of receipts from Trump’s businesses. Republicans, meanwhile, have focused on similar allegations about President Biden and his son, Hunter. So far, no wrongdoing has been proven there.
According to Eric Trump, son of the former president, profits earned by the Trump hotels were given to the Treasury Department voluntarily. We don’t know if the money was given to the federal government, but this admission confirms that profits were in fact earned from foreign entities. The whole thing merits more investigation.
It is so easy to throw this kind of behavior on the scrapheap of outrageous — sometimes illegal — doings by the former president, to shake your head and shrug your shoulders. But there is a compelling reason to keep calling out all the illegal and immoral exploits of Trump. If no one does, he gets away with it.
Read the full report here.
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When will this criminal be put into jail? How much evidence is needed? And, "he" leads in the polls? Give me a break. Please let justice be served. And, most of all, Mr. Rather, please keep the information and reminders coming. Thank you, sir!
Once again the stories which reach a majority of Substack readers won't reach those who will undoubtedly support Trump. When Comer was found to have money squirreled away in accounts similar to those of the Bidens, it was quickly pushed aside, and never mentioned on the outlets patronized by Trump supporters. Witness what has happened to events of Jan 6. One fourth of America now believes that the entire episode was promoted by the FBI, no doubt the same forces which orchestrated the assassination of JFK!! Anyone who is in any doubt what would happen should Trump be returned to the White House, wake up and smell the coffee. We look back on the rise of Hitler and other dictators and wonder how it happened...how was he able to convince so many millions of people that the elimination of the Jews would solve all of their problems? The same way that MAGA folks have convinced millions that Jan 6 was a riot instigated by the FBI in which a group of
peaceful tourists were attacked. Biden confuses the names Vlodimir and Vladimir and it spreads all over the MAGA media that he is on his way to mental oblivion. Trump talks about airfields during the Revolutionary War and windmills killing dolphins and it is ignored. If those in the know, those who do know better and who realize the implications of what could easily occur if this isn't stopped, don't step up and speak out, loudly and forcefully, in places which will attract attention by significant numbers of voters, we are on the way to disaster.