A top House Democrat is calling on Donald Trump to return the nearly $8 million he collected from foreign governments while he was president.
A report released last week by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee alleges that Trump’s companies — mostly his hotels and resorts — were paid at least $7.8 million by countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The report, which includes more than 100 pages of documents detailing the payments, argued the transactions violated a constitutional ban on payments from foreign governments to public officials.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, demanded that Trump give back the money, arguing his acceptance of the money was a “stunning violation of the U.S. Constitution.”
“Your violations of the U.S. Constitution and failure to place your duty of loyalty to the American people over your personal financial interests were entirely willful and knowing,” Raskin said.
Seeing as how this is what they’re trying to pin on Biden, I’d like to point out one more time that every conservative accusation is a confession.
Even if The Democrats won this fight, he will just scam/grift this out of his supporters.
He doesn’t have it.
Lol at “must”. Stinky toddler won’t pay his dime-sized court fines or his own lawyers
Trump’s hotels and resorts have to be free to foreigners if he is in office? Does he need congressional approval for those fees?
I think this needs to be looked at line by line. Payment for services is OK, payment for nothing (bribes) is not.
Going forward, presidents need to divest while in office, IMO.
At least he paid taxes on it.
Not just that but he should also clarify exactly what the payments were for specifically if they were payments for trading national secrets
good luck
Plus interest.
Only if they return the intelligence I shared with them!
— Trump
“make me”
…said the orange shitgibbon…
They made Jimmy Carter sell a peanut farm but those imaginary friend praying halfwits let Trump bathe in corruption must be the Lord’s will empowering our enemies. I’m still curious who Trumps handler is.
But I thought the weird looking one said that all of it went to thr US Treasury?
He’s not going to. If anything he’s probably moved the money already
Return? Jack Smith should have another indictment for him for that.
How about we just throw Trump is prison for the rest of his life instead?
Does he have $7.8M in cash?
The money isn’t the story? It’s what the money bought that should be the focus.
It’s such a non-story than almost no credible sources are carrying it.
The man owns hotels. People stay in those hotels. Heaven forbid
That amount Seems low but what do I know
*democrats demand*
Might as well say just kidding.
Good luck with that.
And that is just what was reported.
Instead of returning the money, why don’t they put it towards a donation to solving some of the issues that plague the country?
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They are stating a wish! Until they come for his gold for real like, civil asset forfeiture… oh wait! That is happening!
I’m sure he’ll get right on that. He’s totally a billionaire, so this should be trump change to him.
What is democrat? Sry me not from Ireland
That’s fair.
It’s beyond transparent and shameless how the GOP just accuses Biden of all the stuff they are actually doing or have done.
Here comes the fund raising drive for his followers to keep paying his debt
This will never happen. They tested rich people cashing checks given to them and Trump cashed a check for less than a dollar. He never gives money back.
He’s already said it’s a small amount of money so I’m sure he’ll have no problem with giving it up /s
Didn’t diet coke Jr say it had already been handed over to the treasury?
I’m sure there are receipts. Post them.
There won’t be any issues here…
I am sure he will get right on that after he finishes infrastructure week and releases his tax returns.
In the meantime, the GOP will keep accusing Biden of the same exact thing and say that means he should totally be impeached. I’m sure if they are confronted with the fact they’re complete hypocrites that only know how to project, they will just use their new magic excuse with zero sense of irony:
_”Well this is something we should let the voters decide.”_
Trump must be charged and arrested for taking bribes.
Trump: “It’s not that much money. Everyone pays me a lot of money. But still, **I didn’t get paid $8 million for nothing.**”
Sons: “This is ridiculous. We donated it all to the U.S. Treasury. No, I don’t need to show you proof—no more questions.”
Finally.
He’ll ignore this and nobody will do anything.
I’m not sure what government organization would actually deal with this?
It’s part of the constitution that has so many holes in it.
Biden should appoint a special prosecutor to round this up. You know Trump did it – pretty sure Jared did it.
The 2 DoDobirds probably don’t know they did it but Dad did it behind their backs.
Trump isn’t returning shit, except maybe to the White House, because the justice system simply doesn’t work for wealthy, influential people like him. He has federal judges running interference for him, for god’s sake. Dude is never giving that money back.
The organization already supplied proof of a donation of $8mil to the US Treasury.
On top of him donating his salary as POTUS to the US Treasury, which accounts for another $2.4 mil
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A top House Democrat is calling on Donald Trump to return the nearly $8 million he collected from foreign governments while he was president.
A report released last week by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee alleges that Trump’s companies — mostly his hotels and resorts — were paid at least $7.8 million by countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The report, which includes more than 100 pages of documents detailing the payments, argued the transactions violated a constitutional ban on payments from foreign governments to public officials.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, demanded that Trump give back the money, arguing his acceptance of the money was a “stunning violation of the U.S. Constitution.”
“Your violations of the U.S. Constitution and failure to place your duty of loyalty to the American people over your personal financial interests were entirely willful and knowing,” Raskin said.
Seeing as how this is what they’re trying to pin on Biden, I’d like to point out one more time that every conservative accusation is a confession.
Even if The Democrats won this fight, he will just scam/grift this out of his supporters.
He doesn’t have it.
Lol at “must”. Stinky toddler won’t pay his dime-sized court fines or his own lawyers
Trump’s hotels and resorts have to be free to foreigners if he is in office? Does he need congressional approval for those fees?
I think this needs to be looked at line by line. Payment for services is OK, payment for nothing (bribes) is not.
Going forward, presidents need to divest while in office, IMO.
At least he paid taxes on it.
Not just that but he should also clarify exactly what the payments were for specifically if they were payments for trading national secrets
good luck
Plus interest.
Only if they return the intelligence I shared with them!
— Trump
“make me”
…said the orange shitgibbon…
They made Jimmy Carter sell a peanut farm but those imaginary friend praying halfwits let Trump bathe in corruption must be the Lord’s will empowering our enemies. I’m still curious who Trumps handler is.
But I thought the weird looking one said that all of it went to thr US Treasury?
He’s not going to. If anything he’s probably moved the money already
Return? Jack Smith should have another indictment for him for that.
How about we just throw Trump is prison for the rest of his life instead?
Does he have $7.8M in cash?
The money isn’t the story? It’s what the money bought that should be the focus.
It’s such a non-story than almost no credible sources are carrying it.
The man owns hotels. People stay in those hotels. Heaven forbid
That amount Seems low but what do I know
*democrats demand*
Might as well say just kidding.
Good luck with that.
And that is just what was reported.
Instead of returning the money, why don’t they put it towards a donation to solving some of the issues that plague the country?
[removed]
They are stating a wish! Until they come for his gold for real like, civil asset forfeiture… oh wait! That is happening!
I’m sure he’ll get right on that. He’s totally a billionaire, so this should be trump change to him.
What is democrat? Sry me not from Ireland
That’s fair.
It’s beyond transparent and shameless how the GOP just accuses Biden of all the stuff they are actually doing or have done.
Here comes the fund raising drive for his followers to keep paying his debt
This will never happen. They tested rich people cashing checks given to them and Trump cashed a check for less than a dollar. He never gives money back.
He’s already said it’s a small amount of money so I’m sure he’ll have no problem with giving it up /s
Didn’t diet coke Jr say it had already been handed over to the treasury?
I’m sure there are receipts. Post them.
There won’t be any issues here…
I am sure he will get right on that after he finishes infrastructure week and releases his tax returns.
In the meantime, the GOP will keep accusing Biden of the same exact thing and say that means he should totally be impeached. I’m sure if they are confronted with the fact they’re complete hypocrites that only know how to project, they will just use their new magic excuse with zero sense of irony:
_”Well this is something we should let the voters decide.”_
Trump must be charged and arrested for taking bribes.
Trump: “It’s not that much money. Everyone pays me a lot of money. But still, **I didn’t get paid $8 million for nothing.**”
Sons: “This is ridiculous. We donated it all to the U.S. Treasury. No, I don’t need to show you proof—no more questions.”
Finally.
He’ll ignore this and nobody will do anything.
I’m not sure what government organization would actually deal with this?
It’s part of the constitution that has so many holes in it.
Biden should appoint a special prosecutor to round this up. You know Trump did it – pretty sure Jared did it.
The 2 DoDobirds probably don’t know they did it but Dad did it behind their backs.
Trump isn’t returning shit, except maybe to the White House, because the justice system simply doesn’t work for wealthy, influential people like him. He has federal judges running interference for him, for god’s sake. Dude is never giving that money back.
The organization already supplied proof of a donation of $8mil to the US Treasury.
On top of him donating his salary as POTUS to the US Treasury, which accounts for another $2.4 mil