The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday.
Those payments collectively included millions of dollars from China’s Embassy in the United States, a state-owned Chinese bank accused by the US Justice Department of helping North Korea evade sanctions and a state-owned Chinese air transit company. Accounting records from Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars USA, were obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
In a report, the House Democrats say that China is one of 20 countries that made at least $7.8 million in total payments to Trump-owned businesses and properties during the former president’s stint in the White House, including his hotels in Washington DC, New York and Las Vegas.
As much as I find this appalling, I’m hesitant to believe the narrative provided. Everything I’ve read only claims a value while he was president, but does not say what those same entities got in years he wasn’t president.
If they got the same amount before he was president, then this is just rage bait. If data shows they gained significantly more during (and possibly after) presidency, then the rage is more justified.
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It doesn’t matter legally. Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid breaking the law.
It’s okay folks he was getting paid by China before he was president. Checkmate Libs!!!1!