Trump Failed to Provide Accounting of Foreign Gifts

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Trump Failed to Provide Accounting of Foreign Gifts

April 9, 2022 at 12:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 103 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/09/trump-failed-to-provide-accounting-of-foreign-gifts/

"SNIP......

“The Trump administration left office without providing the State Department with an accounting of the gifts former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials received from foreign governments in 2020,” the New York Times reports.

“The department said that as a result, it could not fully account for the gifts officials received, the latest example to emerge in recent months of how the Trump administration’s flouting of laws and norms about the day-to-day operations of government now makes it harder to determine whether anything improper took place.”

.....SNIP"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. These gifts are the property of the USA and do not belong to TFG or his asshole family

I have no doubt that TFG is too stupid to understand this concept and that TFG sole good number of these gifts

[MurrayDelph]

3. More likely

Knows but doesn't care.

[onecaliberal]

2. They are above the law who cares.

[Hoyt]

4. Another action demonstrating he is not competent to hold office. Unfortuantely, appears no criminal

penalty is attached.

"Ethics expert Richard W. Painter told The New York Times that by failing to disclose the gifts, the Trump White House violated the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution, which makes it illegal to take gifts from foreigners without permission from Congress.
However, the clause has no criminal or civil penalties, which he said makes it extremely difficult to hold former officials accountable."

https://www.businessinsider.com/foreign-gift-records-for-trump-pence-missing-state-department-2022-4

[Frustratedlady]

5. This is no surprise. He had no intention to claim/leave anything above $25...

I would imagine the Saudi govt. gave the whole family pretty valuable gifts, including loans.

Too bad we'll never find out how much he made off that job he "refused" to take a salary for. I wonder how many of those donations ever made it to their destination. We all know how careful the Trump family is about collecting funds for charity.

[msfiddlestix]

6. of course that happened. is it really a surprise? enough to make the snooze shows no doubt

I'm so damned tired of this effed up family free to carry on with their criminal antics. endlessly. no consequence in terms of judicial.

only some bad press with an asterisk of whataboutisms, which somehow flips his criminal behavior to a nothing burger.

sick to death of it.

[MineralMan]

7. Trump has utter contempt for all laws.

They don't apply to him, he thinks.

[Vinca]

8. Check the attic at Mar-a-Grifto.