House Oversight launches investigation into unreported gifts received by Trump

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 House Oversight launches investigation into unreported gifts received by Trump
by TheHill.com - 06/07/22 3:10 PM ET

House Oversight Committee Democrats have launched an investigation into the gifts former President Trump received while he was in office, claiming he failed to account for thousands of dollars worth of gifts he received from foreign officials.

According to the committee, the former president appears to have flouted laws that require turning over any gift deemed to be worth more than $415 – a longstanding practice based on the Emoluments Clause of the constitution, which places limits on what the president can receive from foreign governments.

“Public reporting indicates that President Trump accepted multiple gifts from foreign sources in 2020, yet these gifts do not appear on the Department of State’s public list as required,” Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter to the National Archives.

“These revelations raise concerns about the potential for undue influence over former President Trump by foreign governments, which may have put the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States at risk.”

The request comes following an April report in The New York Times detailing how the State Department was unable to track many of the gifts Trump and others in the administration received during their final full year in office.

State Department officials have since told the committee that its gift vault was left in “complete disarray” by the Trump administration.

Yet some of the gifts the prior administration failed to turn over were covered in media reports of their overseas trips. On a trip to India alone, Trump received a bust of Mahatma Gandhi, a marble replica of Gandhi’s ‘Three Monkeys statue,’ and a spinning wheel, along with other gifts.

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[Idiot]

House Oversight launches investigation into unreported gifts received by Trump
by TheHill.com - 06/07/22 3:10 PM ET

House Oversight Committee Democrats have launched an investigation into the gifts former President Trump received while he was in office, claiming he failed to account for thousands of dollars worth of gifts he received from foreign officials.

According to the committee, the former president appears to have flouted laws that require turning over any gift deemed to be worth more than $415 – a longstanding practice based on the Emoluments Clause of the constitution, which places limits on what the president can receive from foreign governments.

“Public reporting indicates that President Trump accepted multiple gifts from foreign sources in 2020, yet these gifts do not appear on the Department of State’s public list as required,” Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter to the National Archives.

“These revelations raise concerns about the potential for undue influence over former President Trump by foreign governments, which may have put the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States at risk.”

The request comes following an April report in The New York Times detailing how the State Department was unable to track many of the gifts Trump and others in the administration received during their final full year in office.

State Department officials have since told the committee that its gift vault was left in “complete disarray” by the Trump administration.

Yet some of the gifts the prior administration failed to turn over were covered in media reports of their overseas trips. On a trip to India alone, Trump received a bust of Mahatma Gandhi, a marble replica of Gandhi’s ‘Three Monkeys statue,’ and a spinning wheel, along with other gifts.

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https://thehill.com/news/house/3514831-house-oversight-launches-investigation-into-unreported-gifts-received-by-trump/

[Right_in_Virginia]

They are desperate to keep Trump out of the Oval Office ....... which is one more reason why we must fight to return him.

[GtHawk]

Tell you what, first do the grifters Clinton and then the Obama's, after them we talk about a billionaire not reporting gifts.

[240B]

Rules for thee, but not for me. <- Democrat campaign slogan

[240B]

How does Pelosi go from being paid 100,000 dollars a year to being a $100 millionaire on public payroll? It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

Will Pelosi ever face an inquisition? Will Pelosi ever be asked anything? No. Not at all. She has a Democrat NO ACCOUNABILY card. Pelosi is as Dirty as is possible to be Dirty crawling in the sewers of shit in Washington D.C. She gobbles it up, and then shits on deserving Americans.

OK? Let take inventory of all the 'gifts' which have been given to Democrats.

[GtHawk]

How does Pelosi go from being paid 100,000 dollars a year to being a $100 millionaire on public payroll? It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

Will Pelosi every face an inquisition? Will Pelosi ever be asked anything? No. Not at all. She has a Democrat NO ACCOUNABILY card. Pelosi is as Dirty as is possible to be Dirty crawling in the sewers of shit in Washington D.C. She gobbles it up, and then shits on deserving Americans.

OK? Let take inventory of all the 'gifts' which have been given to Democrats.

I don't think between insider stock trades, feeding her husband insider information, kickbacks and other payola that would land one of us serfs in prison that it was to hard and I think $100 millionaire is way underestimating her graft.

[christian]

The game is; If we can demonize and blame Trump for everything, the democrats can skulk away unscathed.  I don't see the low life degenerates getting away with it, myself.
     

[IsailedawayfromFR]

If we wish to go back to former presidents, why not Hillary's thefts of WH artifacts when Bubba left?