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All these gifts Trump received from foreign governments while president, belong to the federal government unless Trump decides to pay the government for them?!! Trump did not pay jack, but kept the gifts?!!
Several gifts given by foreign countries to Donald Trump during his presidency are unaccounted for in government records, according to a report released Friday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which detailed ways in which the Trump White House had failed to follow the law in how it handled gifts.
The missing items included a $3,040 driver and $460 putter given to Trump by Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan at the time, and “a larger-than-life-sized painting” of Trump given to him by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, according to the report.
A box decorated in silver patterns that a union activist in Egypt had given to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is also missing, the report said. The box was valued at $450.
The Trump White House, the report said, failed to properly document more than 100 gifts valued at more than $250,000 — including about $48,000 from Saudi Arabia — that had been given to Trump; his wife, Melania; Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump. Those gifts were turned over to the government and ultimately accounted for in records but were never publicly reported, as required by law.
Each government department and agency is required to submit a list to the State Department of gifts over $415 its officials received from foreign governments. Officials can keep those gifts if they are willing to reimburse the government their appraised value. The measure is intended to ensure that foreign governments do not gain undue influence over U.S. officials. (A different set of rules governs gifts from domestic sources.)
Before or shortly after leaving office, departing administrations typically provide the State Department with a list of the gifts they received in their final year to ensure they have followed the law. The Trump White House failed to do this, alarming government watchdogs and Democrats.
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The report by the House Democrats included nearly two dozen pages of previously undisclosed White House emails and documents that raised a series of still-unanswered questions.
They include the whereabouts of a piece of ornate jewelry given to Trump by the Saudis and whether Trump broke the law when he kept a computer given to him by Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-failed-law-foreign-gifts-172327940.html
The Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act prohibits a president and federal officials from keeping foreign gifts that exceed the minimal value, which is currently set at $415. The law also put a system in place for how information about foreign gifts gets publicly disclosed and allows recipients of items valued over the set dollar amount have the option of purchasing and retaining them.
Trump's gifts from foreign leaders under scrutiny from House Oversight committee - The Washington Post
Several gifts given by foreign countries to Donald Trump during his presidency are unaccounted for in government records, according to a report released Friday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which detailed ways in which the Trump White House had failed to follow the law in how it handled gifts.
The missing items included a $3,040 driver and $460 putter given to Trump by Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan at the time, and “a larger-than-life-sized painting” of Trump given to him by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, according to the report.
A box decorated in silver patterns that a union activist in Egypt had given to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is also missing, the report said. The box was valued at $450.
The Trump White House, the report said, failed to properly document more than 100 gifts valued at more than $250,000 — including about $48,000 from Saudi Arabia — that had been given to Trump; his wife, Melania; Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump. Those gifts were turned over to the government and ultimately accounted for in records but were never publicly reported, as required by law.
Each government department and agency is required to submit a list to the State Department of gifts over $415 its officials received from foreign governments. Officials can keep those gifts if they are willing to reimburse the government their appraised value. The measure is intended to ensure that foreign governments do not gain undue influence over U.S. officials. (A different set of rules governs gifts from domestic sources.)
Before or shortly after leaving office, departing administrations typically provide the State Department with a list of the gifts they received in their final year to ensure they have followed the law. The Trump White House failed to do this, alarming government watchdogs and Democrats.
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The report by the House Democrats included nearly two dozen pages of previously undisclosed White House emails and documents that raised a series of still-unanswered questions.
They include the whereabouts of a piece of ornate jewelry given to Trump by the Saudis and whether Trump broke the law when he kept a computer given to him by Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-failed-law-foreign-gifts-172327940.html
The Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act prohibits a president and federal officials from keeping foreign gifts that exceed the minimal value, which is currently set at $415. The law also put a system in place for how information about foreign gifts gets publicly disclosed and allows recipients of items valued over the set dollar amount have the option of purchasing and retaining them.
Trump's gifts from foreign leaders under scrutiny from House Oversight committee - The Washington Post
