It was 2018 when President Donald Trump publicly doubted the veracity of the report from his government’s spy services in which Saudi Prince Mohamed bin Salman, heir to the crown, was named as ultimately responsible for the death and dismemberment of Jamal. Khashoggi, columnist for The Washington Post.
That same year, Trump’s business received at least $210,000 from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for accommodation fees at hotels it owned.
This transaction appears in the report titled White House for Sale, published by the Democrats of the House of Representatives, which details that the former president’s company, whose ownership he did not renounce, received around 7.8 million dollars from 20 countries. , without having communicated it to Congress, which violates the Constitution.
China is the leading nation in these payments, with 5.5 million dollars. All from the Chinese State or public companies. Behind is Saudi Arabia, with 615,000. They are the two main foreign clients of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, the Trump International in Las Vegas, the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Trump World Tower, next to the United Nations, also in this city. Other countries that contributed to increasing its balance were Kuwait, Qatar, India and Afghanistan.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed the veracity of the figures by reviewing documents provided by Mazars USA, Trump’s former accounting firm, to which Democrats took years to gain access. It only covers a period of two years, since, after the litigation raised by Trump, the Republicans shelved the petitions when they took power of the House.
The 156 pages offer concrete evidence that Trump was involved in practices that Republicans now want to attribute to Joe Biden for foreign income, without any evidence, to build the impeachment against the current president.
“By elevating his personal interests and the political priorities of corrupt foreign powers above the American public benefit, former President Trump violated both the Constitution and the careful precedents observed by previous commanders in chief,” the prologue emphasizes. Republicans despised the report, and Eric Trump, one of the former president’s sons, insisted that no one like his father “has been as tough on China.”