Shocking details of Trump family’s foreign gifts worth $250,000 revealed
Washington: During his tenure in the White House, former President… Donald Trump And his family allegedly failed to disclose gifts from foreign governments that totaled more than $250,000, according to a statement from Democrats on Friday. The gifts reportedly included items such as a golden golf club from Japan and a set of swords from members of the Saudi royal family.
The items were among nearly 100 gifts listed in preliminary findings from opposition Democratic lawmakers who sit on the Republican-led U.S. House Oversight Committee, saying many are unaccounted for in official records.
The panel’s top Democrat, Jamie Raskin, criticized the former president’s administration for its “brazen disregard for the rule of law and systematic misuse of large gifts from foreign governments.”
The Maryland congressman pointed to “numerous lavish personal gifts” that have never been reported, vowed to determine their current whereabouts and “whether they are part of the president’s conduct of U.S. foreign policy.” must have been used to influence.”
They include 16 items from Saudis and Emiratis worth about $45,000, including a $24,000 dagger and two sword sets from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
This list also includes a larger-than-life painting. Trump Committee investigators on behalf of El Salvador’s president believe he may have been transferred to Florida, where Trump owns a beachfront mansion and three golf clubs.
Democrats said Japan’s Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated last year, gave Trump a $3,755 gold golf driver in November 2016 in an effort to forge a “special relationship” with the president-elect.
Abe gave the then-president more clubs in 2017 and 2018 during visits to the Trump International Golf Club in Florida and the Kasumigasaki Country Club on the outskirts of Tokyo.
gave Trump also received 17 unreported gifts A $4,600 model of the Taj Mahal and $1,900 cufflinks worth about $50,000 from India, the report said.
“The discovery of these unreported foreign gifts raises important questions about why former President Trump failed to disclose these gifts to the public, as required by federal law,” House Democrats said in a statement. “.
Trump’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.