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He'd totally sell out trillions of dollars in investments for a few million. That's how much of a traitor he is.
“I was president, you can’t prosecute a president for crimes he committed while in office. I said so, so it’s law, that’s how presidents work”
We already knew almost all of this.
The House of Saud wasn't renting entire empty floors in Trump properties for shits & giggles.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A new report by Democrats on the House Oversight committee documents more than $7.8 million in payments from at least 20 foreign governments — including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — to businesses owned by then-President Trump during two years of his presidential term.
At the time, Trump was a frequent political commentator who floated running for president — but the lease deal was initiated many years before his 2015 presidential campaign announcement.
"We do not have the ability or viability to stop someone from booking through third parties — Expedia etc — hence the voluntary donation of profits on an annual basis which has been covered ad nauseam," Benza wrote.
The report only covers two years of Trump's time in office because, Democrats say, Republicans ceased enforcing document requests after gaining control of Congress in 2023.
Democratic lawmakers released the report just weeks after Republicans formalized their impeachment inquiry into President Biden, alleging without direct evidence that he was involved in his son's foreign business dealings and that those purported entanglements could have influenced his behavior in while in office.
Asked about the timing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the report's lead author and the top Democrat on the House Oversight committee, said that the investigation dated back years to the beginning of Trump's term.
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