Donald Trump received millions of dollars
from foreign governments, House Oversight
Democrats allege
USA Today,
by
Ken Tran
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/4/2024 10:21:47 AM
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump unconstitutionally profited from the presidency during his tenure in the White House, reaping millions of dollars for his business empire from foreign governments, House Democrats allege in an extensive report.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a 156-page report Thursday morning accusing Trump of exploiting the presidency to financially benefit himself and members of his family. Trump’s businesses, according to the report, received at least $7.8 million from corrupt and authoritarian governments including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The report is the culmination of a nearly seven-year investigation. It says records and documents obtained by House Oversight Democrats reveal "a stunning web
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 1/4/2024 10:25:06 AM (No. 1629431)
A stunning web of leases, hotel reservations and fine dining. They booked rooms in his properties.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
john56 1/4/2024 10:26:14 AM (No. 1629433)
Unlike the Biden family, the Trump family can actually prove that they conducted legal business and not influence-peddling.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 1/4/2024 10:29:16 AM (No. 1629439)
They have the biden family cartel staring them in their faces yet they're still going after President Trump. Do they know what fools they look like?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/4/2024 10:30:50 AM (No. 1629440)
If I recall correctly, Donald Trump was not running his business empire while President. Conflict of interest.
This is his enemies lining up the next impeachment inquiry should he become President again. Here we go again, unless Trump has found a way to shut this nonsense down. Don't ever forget that Trump's enemies got the better of him last time he was President. They weaponized a 'pandemic' against him. They know how to handle him and will do so again unless he has some new strategies.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stuBdoc 1/4/2024 10:33:38 AM (No. 1629442)
Well, we asked what would they think of next. Here it is!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/4/2024 10:49:00 AM (No. 1629453)
Was it a legitimate transaction where arm’s length legal value was given for payment received?
Or was it cash moved through a web of nonoperating entities for no discernible legal purpose?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sully 1/4/2024 10:54:54 AM (No. 1629460)
I am to believe President Donald J Trump was grafting Chyna ****while**** Bill Muellhead was anal probing him for 3 years. Come now.
You had a better chance to sell the pee tape.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 1/4/2024 10:56:23 AM (No. 1629461)
He’s been a business man his whole life and his net worth falls by 40 percent while in office. USA couldn’t include that in their article.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
joew9 1/4/2024 11:00:37 AM (No. 1629463)
He should just refuse to do business with those who dislike the USA. That would be Democrats, Rinos, Federal bureaucrats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/4/2024 11:06:14 AM (No. 1629469)
Ah, they release this the day after the Epstein documents are released?
Wonder if they're trying to direct the media to cover another story again?
I'm sure those same people who believe this story are the same who believe Joe Biden when he said he went to an African-American church every day after high school.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cold porridge 1/4/2024 11:13:21 AM (No. 1629480)
His business was run by his children while he was president, and they actually provided a service/product. That is hugely different than the Clintons selling favored access to the State Department under Hillary or the Bidens selling access to influence JoeBama.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nerdowell 1/4/2024 11:18:23 AM (No. 1629484)
It has to be true, it's 156 pages long! Nobody would write 156 pages about somebody unless they had done a crime of some sort!
156 pages!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 1/4/2024 11:22:24 AM (No. 1629488)
Hmmm. He owns golf resorts and hotels around the world.....could perhaps foreigners stay in some of those foreign located hotels?
Dems are lying pukes. Traitor Joe has NO legitimate business with foreigners, only selling access and taking bribes.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/4/2024 11:24:39 AM (No. 1629490)
Geee...what a shocker, international celebrities and monied tycoons booked rooms and rented office space in some of the worlds most luxurious, prestigious hotels, and office addresses. They did before Trump ever ran for any office, they still do today.
How much did they spend at the Hyatts, Hiltons, Marriots, Waldorfs, Ritz's, 4 seasons, The Willard....during the same periods?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 1/4/2024 11:26:31 AM (No. 1629497)
This is old news from November 2016. When PDJT was elected, the Dims bleated that he had to divest himself of most of his properties. It was nonsense then and it's nonsense now. Of course the Dims' stenographers in the lamestream media are making a big deal about the hit piece in order to detract attention from Quid pro Joe's corruption.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kono 1/4/2024 11:34:23 AM (No. 1629504)
PDJT hadn't even had a chance to begin monetizing his office when the Dems began this investigation. It was preemptive, not investigative -- the second or third pretense in their relentless effort to find some cause for removing him from office. Their unconstitutional efforts to get him removed from the 2024 ballots appears poised to be struck down in appeals, so they have to shift quickly to something else. Anything else.
Even this mess.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/4/2024 11:42:03 AM (No. 1629509)
I'll wager the same people/governments were frequenting Trump's establishments years prior to his presidency and spent the equivalent money when adjusted for inflation.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jayjeti 1/4/2024 11:44:28 AM (No. 1629512)
It's just the accusation. They don't care if it's provable or if it happened. If the Democrats were in control of the speaker they would have a big election year investigation.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
marbles 1/4/2024 11:45:11 AM (No. 1629513)
As some democrat somewhere said, " It's not whether it's true or not, it's the seriousness of the charge ".
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/4/2024 12:02:59 PM (No. 1629529)
Any claim of wrong doing by Trump coming from anything with a "D" behind it's name has an over/under for truth at about 5%...Take the under for $1,000.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/4/2024 12:09:09 PM (No. 1629533)
That's what you call legitimate business, in which the Trump family has always been involved in. The Legacy Media, including USA Today, is an arm of the Democrat Party and of the political far left. About 90% of new organizations deserve to be put out of business with their writers and reporters on the unemployment line. They're damaging America and the evanescent free world, and need to find responsible work outside the news business. To hell with them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/4/2024 12:36:40 PM (No. 1629552)
There is a big difference between Trump and Biden when it comes to foreign money. Biden and his "bagman" son hunter received millions of dollars from foreign interests without being able to explain why, while Trump had a large number of longstanding legitimate businesses, both in the USA and abroad that were being run by his sons while he was president from which the Trump Organization received legitimate profits.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/4/2024 12:45:46 PM (No. 1629559)
These people make me want to puke.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/4/2024 12:50:49 PM (No. 1629562)
There isn't a nice word for this bovine excrement.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
hershey 1/4/2024 1:29:32 PM (No. 1629578)
If a democrap opens their mouth, they are lying...it's a faulty brain connection...its' impossible for them to tell the truth...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 1/4/2024 2:08:31 PM (No. 1629597)
And how many companies here in the United States do business in foreign (other) countries? Hospitality ones?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/4/2024 2:52:02 PM (No. 1629629)
This laughable demonrat "investigation" is a stunning web of B.S.
The Trump Organization sold valuable products and services on the free market. Exactly what did the Biden Crime Family sell?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
judy 1/4/2024 3:27:46 PM (No. 1629671)
They proved the Trump made their $$$ from hotels....now tell us where the Bidens made their $$$...
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/4/2024 3:30:58 PM (No. 1629674)
One of the largest "Chinese" companies they are claiming was involved had been renting office space in Trump Tower since 2008.
They of course included ALL of the money from that day until now as "Proof" Trump was selling Influence/favors, accepting payoffs from foreign sources.
If you look into his actual ownership you'll find that most of his buildings, half a dozen very large ones in NYC alone, have ZERO debt, pay LOTS of taxes, and employ LOTS of people, while he owns some residential aspects of each, where he makes his money is that he owns all of the parking, and commercial spaces housing restaurants , and stores...like NIKE and Tiffanys. Are they going to claim that every car parked is a "Payoff" Every "Blue Box" is a bribe? At his "post office" Hotel in DC he took a federal govt building that had been a tax drain on the city and the Fed, spent $everal $hundered Million starting in 2012 and turned into one of DC's top hotels opened in 2016, making the City and Federal Govt $MILLIONS in taxes, much more than HE earned from the rehab/lease, created thousands of jobs from design, to construction, to operations...THEN...ANY foreign "Guests" even remotely connected to Govt lobbying/business that stayed there he donated whatever they spent directly TO the Govt(not to some obscure charity). STILL the Dems constantly attacked the Hotel, and finally forced him to sell it(The govt still owns it, all he held was a long term lease) It was bought by CGI, a group of Miami Investors, it is now a Hilton/Waldorf Astoria.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/4/2024 4:08:06 PM (No. 1629694)
Sounds to me like another Democ'RAT LIE.
They have NO credibility.
Their blatant lies are too numerous to list here.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
judy 1/4/2024 4:23:41 PM (No. 1629697)
USA Today...unreadable...
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
padiva 1/4/2024 10:35:01 PM (No. 1629833)
Let's also take a look at the Clinton Foundation.
Clintons collected money from wherever and gave a small portion to places where they wanted to buy votes.
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