According to a congressional investigation released on Thursday, foreign countries, particularly China, gave former US President Donald Trump’s businesses at least $7.8 million during his tenure in office.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said that during Trump’s presidency, officials from as many as 20 countries sent money to his hotel and real estate ventures, including representatives from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The authors claim that such revenues from overseas governments violated a constitutional ban on “foreign emoluments.”
“As President, Donald Trump accepted more than $7.8 million in payments from foreign states and their leaders, including some of the world’s most unsavory regimes,” said the report titled “White House for Sale.”
“We know about only some of the payments that passed into former President Trump’s hands during just two years of his presidency from just 20 of the more than 190 nations in the world through just four of his more than 500 businesses.”
