It was 2018 when President Donald Trump publicly cast doubt on the veracity of his government's intelligence report that pointed to Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman 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 hotel room fees it owned.
This transaction is included in the report entitled White House for Sale, released by the Democrats of the House of Representatives, in which it is detailed that the company of the former president, whose ownership he did not renounce, received around of 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 coming from the State or public companies. Behind is Saudi Arabia, with 615,000 dollars. 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 that city. Other countries that contributed to increasing their balance were Kuwait, Qatar, India and Afghanistan.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed the veracity of the figures by reviewing documents released by Mazars USA, Trump's former accounting firm, which it took years for Democrats to gain access to. It only considers a two-year period since, after the litigation raised by Trump, Republicans shelved the petitions when they took power in 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 public good of the United States, former President Trump violated both the provisions of the Constitution and the careful precedents observed by previous commanders in chief," the statement said. prologue Republicans have scorned the report and Eric Trump, one of the former president's sons, has insisted that no one "has been as tough on China" as his father.
