The report reveals that Trump's companies would have received million-dollar payments from foreign governments

First Amendment: 01/05/2024 – 01:25Last update: 01/05/2024 – 01:23

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Officials from Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were among those in about two dozen countries who spent money on Trump's hotels and real estate companies during his presidency. According to a report by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The authors claim that these foreign government receipts violate the constitutional ban on “foreign payments.”.

“As president, Donald Trump accepted more than $7.8 million in payments from foreign countries and their leaders, including some of the world’s most unsavory regimes,” says the report, titled “The White House for Sale.”

“We just know” That in Trump's first two years in the White House, there were payments from about two dozen countries to four of the then-president's more than 500 companies.“, says the report.

In the case of China, the report says that Beijing and companies such as ICBC Bank and Hainan Airlines spent $5.5 million on Trump properties.

“Former President Trump violated the Constitution when companies he owned accepted these bonuses paid by Beijing without the approval of Congress,” the report stated.

The authors say the total amount could be higher, Because the $5.5 million figure is based solely on Mazars' statementsTrump Accounting Firm, and in documents filed with the US Financial Regulatory Authority.

In an expense dated August 27, 2017, a delegation from the Chinese Embassy spent $19,391 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

The report also states that “Saudi Arabia made at least $615,422 in blocked payments to former President Trump’s companies over the course of his term alone from Trump World Tower and his March 2018 stay at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.”

“Former President Trump also bragged about the Saudis’ continued willingness to do business on very favorable terms for him,” the report says.

The Trump Hotel in Washington was sold in 2022 to an investment group and was renamed the luxury Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

(AFP)