Trump made 7.8 million from foreign countries

@sonhouse said
While POTUS, violating the emoluments clause in the constitution.
He said he was SO hard on China but they gave him 5 MILLION hidden in hotel visits so coincidentally to his hotels and such, 2 mil from Saudi Arabia.
Money flowed into his businesses from 20 separate countries, one 14 month long stay at one of T's hotels, 200,000 bucks paid by China.
And now that dems are showing all this, repubs say not interested.
Gee, I wonder why THAT could be?

"Money flowed into his businesses...."
I can't research all this stuff like y'all do, ,,,,,but I assume you are comparing him to Biden's riches?
Can you point out that the money to Biden went into....Not-businesses.
Just the Biden family accounts.
Can Trump show what the money was paid for? Can Biden?
You give us all a headache.

@sonhouse said
While POTUS, violating the emoluments clause in the constitution.
He said he was SO hard on China but they gave him 5 MILLION hidden in hotel visits so coincidentally to his hotels and such, 2 mil from Saudi Arabia.
Money flowed into his businesses from 20 separate countries, one 14 month long stay at one of T's hotels, 200,000 bucks paid by China.
And now that dems are showing all this, repubs say not interested.
Gee, I wonder why THAT could be?

The fact that Trump is the most corrupt POTUS in living memory is established fact but the republicants could care less as long as he hates the right people and keeps telling them low life losers in his base that they are the victims

@kevcvs57 said
The fact that Trump is the most corrupt POTUS in living memory is established fact but the republicants could care less as long as he hates the right people and keeps telling them low life losers in his base that they are the victims

What corruptness has he been charged (hounded by heyenas) with?
You will not answer.

@sonhouse said
While POTUS, violating the emoluments clause in the constitution.
He said he was SO hard on China but they gave him 5 MILLION hidden in hotel visits so coincidentally to his hotels and such, 2 mil from Saudi Arabia.
Money flowed into his businesses from 20 separate countries, one 14 month long stay at one of T's hotels, 200,000 bucks paid by China.
And now that dems are showing all this, repubs say not interested.
Gee, I wonder why THAT could be?

I heard that allegation last night from Rick Wiles. Do you have proof of it?

@metal-brain said
I heard that allegation last night from Rick Wiles. Do you have proof of it?

He will not likely have the concrete evidence such as that which has been found on the Biden family. Has anyone ever wondered why the Biden family just doesn’t come out and say what the money was paid for? If I was a judge, I would rule against them just for that one reason. Some people call that smelling a rat. Liberals call that ‘So?’ So gay, don’t you know.

@averagejoe1 said
He will not likely have the concrete evidence such as that which has been found on the Biden family. Has anyone ever wondered why the Biden family just doesn’t come out and say what the money was paid for? If I was a judge, I would rule against them just for that one reason. Some people call that smelling a rat. Liberals call that ‘So?’ So gay, don’t you know.

The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released a 156-page report showing that when he was in the presidency, Trump received at least $7.8 million from 20 different governments, including those of China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Malaysia, through businesses he owned.

The Democrats brought receipts.

According to the report—and the documents from Trump’s former accounting firm Mazars that are attached to it—the People’s Republic of China and companies substantially controlled by the PRC government paid at least $5,572,548 to Trump-owned properties while Trump was in office; Saudi Arabia paid at least $615,422; Qatar paid at least $465,744; Kuwait paid at least $300,000; India paid at least $282,764; Malaysia paid at least $248,962; Afghanistan paid at least $154,750; the Philippines paid at least $74,810; the United Arab Emirates paid at least $65,225. The list went on and on.

The committee Democrats explained that these payments were likely only a fraction of the actual money exchanged, since they cover only four of more than 500 entities Trump owned at the time. When the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in January 2023, Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) stopped the investigation before Mazars had produced the documents the committee had asked for when Democrats were in charge of it. Those records included documents relating to Russia, South Korea, South Africa, and Brazil.

Trump fought hard against the production of these documents, dragging out the court fight until September 2022. The committee worked on them for just four months before voters put Republicans in charge of the House and the investigation stopped.

These are the first hard numbers that show how foreign governments funneled money to the president while policies involving their countries were in front of him. The report notes, for example, that Trump refused to impose sanctions on Chinese banks that were helping the North Korean government; one of those banks was paying him close to $2 million in rent annually for commercial office space in Trump Tower.

The first article of the U.S. Constitution reads: “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument [that is, salary, fee, or profit], Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

The report also contrasted powerfully with the attempt of Republicans on the Oversight Committee, led by Comer, to argue that Democratic Joe Biden has corruptly profited from the presidency.

In the Washington Post on December 26, 2023, Philip Bump noted that just after voters elected a Republican majority, Comer told the Washington Post that as soon as he was in charge of the Oversight Committee, he would use his power to “determine if this president and this White House are compromised because of the millions of dollars that his family has received from our adversaries in China, Russia and Ukraine.”

For the past year, while he and the committee have made a number of highly misleading statements to make it sound as if there are Biden family businesses involving the president (there are not) and the president was involved in them (he was not), their claims were never backed by any evidence. Bump noted in a piece on December 14, 2023, for example, that Comer told Fox News Channel personality Maria Bartiromo that “the Bidens” have “taken in” more than $24 million. In fact, Bump explained, Biden’s son Hunter and his business partners did receive such payments, but most of the money went to the business partners. About $7.5 million of it went to Hunter Biden. There is no evidence that any of it went to Joe Biden.

All of the committee’s claims have similar reality checks. Jonathan Yerushalmy of The Guardian wrote that after nearly 40,000 pages of bank records and dozens of hours of testimony, “no evidence has emerged that Biden acted corruptly or accepted bribes in his current or previous role.”

Still, the constant hyping of their claims on right-wing media led then–House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to authorize an impeachment inquiry in mid-September, and in mid-December, Republicans in the House formalized the inquiry.

There is more behind the attack on Biden than simply trying to even the score between him and Trump—who remains angry at his impeachments and has demanded Republicans retaliate—or to smear Biden through an “investigation,” which has been a standard technique of the Republicans since the mid-1990s.

Claiming that Biden is as corrupt as Trump undermines faith in our democracy. After all, if everyone is a crook, why does it matter which one is in office? And what makes American democracy any different from the authoritarian systems of Russia or Hungary or Venezuela, where leaders grab what they can for themselves and their followers?

Democracies are different from authoritarian governments because they have laws to prevent the corruption in which it appears Trump engaged. The fact that Republicans refuse to hold their own party members accountable to those laws while smearing their opponents says far more about them than it does about the nature of democracy.

It does, though, highlight that our democracy is in danger.

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Notes:

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2024/DOCUMENT%20PACKET%2001-03-2024_Redacted.pdf

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-release-report-proving-trump-pocketed-millions-from-at-least

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/house-oversight-committee-trump-financial-documents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/26/biden-republicans-impeachment-inquiry-2023/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/14/biden-impeachment-inquiry-comer-evidence/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-ready-vote-formalize-biden-impeachment-inquiry-2023-12-13/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/14/biden-impeachment-inquiry-explained-what-is-happening-and-could-the-president-be-convicted

@averagejoe1 said
What corruptness has he been charged (hounded by heyenas) with?
You will not answer.

You did not answer. One explanatory sentence, please. You are not unlike She Suzanne, who could never tell me the exact lie that was told by Tucker Carlson. She wrote paragraphs like you were just now doing. Zzzzzz
Sounds like biz to me. What was Biden’s business. I did not read your entire post, it was too much like Sunhouse. But I did note a sentence where you stay that Trump made China stop something that was going on with North Korea. Whatever that was is good enough for me. Thank you Trump.

@averagejoe1 said
He will not likely have the concrete evidence such as that which has been found on the Biden family. Has anyone ever wondered why the Biden family just doesn’t come out and say what the money was paid for? If I was a judge, I would rule against them just for that one reason. Some people call that smelling a rat. Liberals call that ‘So?’ So gay, don’t you know.

Again, can you tell us why the Biden family has received upwards of $50M?I can understand why you are all tight lipped about it, but can you make a guess for us since they won’t tell us?

@averagejoe1 said
You did not answer. One explanatory sentence, please. You are not unlike She Suzanne, who could never tell me the exact lie that was told by Tucker Carlson. She wrote paragraphs like you were just now doing. Zzzzzz
Sounds like biz to me. What was Biden’s business. I did not read your entire post, it was too much like Sunhouse. But I did note a sentence where you s ...[text shortened]... ething that was going on with North Korea. Whatever that was is good enough for me. Thank you Trump.

Your biggest problem is that you are too stupid and/or lazy to read anything beyond three sentences in length.

@phranny said
Your biggest problem is that you are too stupid and/or lazy to read anything beyond three sentences in length.

I would rather read Phranny or Marauder than read what seems to be business articles, thoughts of others. Shav would call you a moron if you can’t write for yourself. Did you notice how many links you posted at your opening post? Surely you do not think someone would look at all that,,,,I have corn I need to get out of the fields.
So, yes, I did not read and therefore did not learn what SOMEONE ELSE wrote. Are they forum members?

@averagejoe1 said
What corruptness has he been charged (hounded by heyenas) with?
You will not answer.

Well using campaign funds to pay off one of his whores for one, trying to use U.S. foreign policy funds to coerce Ukraine into ‘finding’ dirt on Biden in order to swing an election for another, and we have his besties, the Saudis pouring money into his golf courses trough the LIV golf green washing scheme
Yeah and that’s not an exhaustive list. The juiciest ones will wait until nearer the end of the election cycle

@averagejoe1 said
I would rather read Phranny or Marauder than read what seems to be business articles, thoughts of others. Shav would call you a moron if you can’t write for yourself. Did you notice how many links you posted at your opening post? Surely you do not think someone would look at all that,,,,I have corn I need to get out of the fields.
So, yes, I did not read and therefore did not learn what SOMEONE ELSE wrote. Are they forum members?

Unlike you, I do not pull my beliefs out of hinder. I posted a piece that is well researched and accurate. As for Biden getting money from foreign countries, there is no evidence he did so. The GOP has been trying to find evidence and they cannot.

@averagejoe1 said
You did not answer. One explanatory sentence, please. You are not unlike She Suzanne, who could never tell me the exact lie that was told by Tucker Carlson. She wrote paragraphs like you were just now doing. Zzzzzz
Sounds like biz to me. What was Biden’s business. I did not read your entire post, it was too much like Sunhouse. But I did note a sentence where you s ...[text shortened]... ething that was going on with North Korea. Whatever that was is good enough for me. Thank you Trump.

Endlessly gullible.

@averagejoe1 said
Again, can you tell us why the Biden family has received upwards of $50M?I can understand why you are all tight lipped about it, but can you make a guess for us since they won’t tell us?

How about you stop lying about this?