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Trump businesses received millions in foreign payments while he was in office, report finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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The only part of this that surprises me is that we're just talking about single-digit millions.
Not only was he bought, he was bought cheap
Those four properties – Trump International Hotel in Washington, Trump Tower and Trump World Tower in New York, and Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas – represented less than 1% of the 558 corporate entities Trump owned either directly or indirectly while president, the report said.
This is nothing but a big gray box that I can't scroll through. I think Lemmy/Connect is having gif problems
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It's the sarcastic surprised meme
Is it a GIF?
Yes, after I uploaded it it also broke for me to view it, just a still picture
Looks fine in Summit app. (Just another data point that the image was posted correctly)
It renders for me now too, I presume the mobile app was updated. Star Trek cartoon Kirk for me.
Something something peanut farm -gop once upon a time
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Businesses tied to Donald Trump received at least $7.8m in foreign payments from 20 countries during his four years in the White House, Democratic congressional investigators said on Thursday.
These countries spent – “often lavishly” – on apartments and hotel stays at properties owned by Trump’s family business empire, “personally enriching President Trump while he made foreign policy decisions connected to their policy agendas with far-reaching ramifications for the United States”, the report said.
Trump, a businessman before his election, broke with US precedent and did not divest from his businesses or put them into a blind trust when he took office, instead leaving his adult sons to manage them.
Shortly after Trump was elected to the presidency in 2016, Congress began investigating conflicts of interest and Trump’s potential violations of the emoluments clause of the US constitution, which bars the acceptance of presents from foreign states by a person holding federal elected office without congressional consent.
The investigation led to a lengthy court dispute, which ended in a settlement in 2022, at which point Trump’s accounting firm began producing the requested documents.
When Republicans took control of the House of Representatives early last year, the committee stopped requiring Trump’s accounting firm to produce documents and a US district court ended the litigation.
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