前总统唐纳德·特朗普的根据众议院监督委员会民主党人周四发布的一份新报告，在他担任总统期间，企业从位于20个不同国家的外国实体那里获得了数百万美元。
监督委员会的最高民主党人、众议员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)发布了这份报告，并提供了特朗普前会计公司的文件，这些文件显示，包括中国和沙特阿拉伯在内的20个政府在特朗普担任总统期间向商业实体支付了至少780万美元，其中包括华盛顿特区和拉斯维加斯的特朗普国际酒店以及纽约的特朗普大厦。
众议院民主党人的这份156页的报告题为“出售白宫”
在报告的前言中，拉斯金写道，“通过将他的个人金融利益和腐败的外国势力的政策优先事项提升到美国公共利益之上，前总统特朗普既违反了宪法的明确命令，也违反了历任总司令设定和遵守的谨慎先例。”
报告称，根据该委员会获得的“有限记录”，沙特阿拉伯可能在特朗普的第一个任期内向特朗普拥有的企业支付了至少615，422美元。
“在沙特阿拉伯王国支付这些款项的同时，特朗普总统选择沙特阿拉伯作为他首次海外访问的目的地——这是美国总统中前所未有的选择，”报告说。
该报告声称，这些款项违反了宪法的外国薪酬条款，该条款禁止总统和其他联邦官员在未经国会批准的情况下接受外国政府的金钱或礼物。
2023年12月19日，共和党总统候选人、前总统唐纳德·特朗普在爱荷华州滑铁卢参加竞选活动。
斯科特·摩根/路透社，文件
“通过他拥有和控制的实体，特朗普总统至少接受了数百万美元的外国薪酬，违反了美国宪法，”民主党人在报告中写道。“从前总统特朗普的会计事务所获得的文件显示，特朗普拥有的四处房产总共至少从外国政府和官员那里收取了数百万美元的款项，违反了宪法禁止外国政府支付‘任何种类’薪酬的规定。”
在给美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)的一份声明中，前总统的儿子、帮助管理特朗普组织的埃里克·特朗普(Eric Trump)表示，众议院民主党人的“叙述是疯狂的”，理由是特朗普自愿捐赠给财政部的利润，以抵消他从外国实体获得的商业收入。
“我们没有能力或可行性阻止某人通过第三方——Expedia等——进行预订，因此自愿捐赠利润...这已经被报道得令人作呕了，”埃里克·特朗普说。“这种说法是疯狂的，特别是考虑到美国历史上没有一位总统比唐纳德·特朗普对中国更强硬……这位总统对他们的商品和服务征收了价值数十亿美元的关税。”
美国广播公司新闻2018年报道称，特朗普曾与自愿向美国财政部捐赠了151，470美元特朗普组织的一名律师表示，特朗普“履行了我们的承诺，即在特朗普总统任期内，将外国政府资助我们酒店和类似业务的利润捐赠出去。”
然而，政府道德监督机构质疑捐款的数额，称所用的方法没有要求特朗普组织说明从外国政府赞助的无利可图的特朗普财产中获得的收入。
2021年，美国最高法院驳回了指控特朗普的诉讼从他的总统任期中获利理由是他已不再任职。
Trump's businesses received millions from foreign entities during his presidency, House report says
Former PresidentDonald Trump'sbusinesses received millions of dollars from foreign entities located in 20 different countries during his presidency, according to a new report released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight committee.
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, released the report and provided documents from Trump's former accounting firm that show that 20 governments, including China and Saudi Arabia, paid at least $7.8 million during Trump's presidency to business entities that included Trump International Hotels in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, and Trump Towers in New York.
The 156-page report by House Democrats is entitled "White House For Sale."
In the forward to the report, Raskin wrote, "By elevating his personal financial interests and the policy priorities of corrupt foreign powers over the American public interest, former President Trump violated both the clear commands of the Constitution and the careful precedent set and observed by every previous commander in chief."
The reports says that, according to "limited records" obtained by the committee, Saudi Arabia likely paid Trump-owned business at least $615,422 during Trump's first term in office.
"While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was making these payments, President Trump chose Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first overseas trip -- a choice that was unprecedented among U.S. presidents," the report says.
The report claims that the payments violated the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, a rule that bars the president and other federal officials from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments without Congressional approval.
"Through entities he owned and controlled, President Trump accepted, at a minimum, millions of dollars in foreign emoluments in violation of the United States Constitution," Democrats write in the report. "The documents obtained from former President Trump's accounting firm demonstrate that four Trump-owned properties together collected, at the least, millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments and officials that violated the Constitution's prohibition on emoluments 'of any kind whatever' from foreign governments."
In a statement to ABC News, Eric Trump, the former president's son who helps run the Trump Organization, said the House Democrats' "narrative is insane," citing profits that Trump voluntary donated to the Treasury Department to offset his business earnings from foreign entities.
"We do not have the ability or viability to stop someone from booking through third parties - Expedia etc - hence the voluntary donation of profits ... which has been covered ad nauseam," Eric Trump said. "That narrative is insane, especially given there is no President in United States history who was tougher on China than Donald Trump… a President who introduced billions and billions of dollars worth of tariffs on their goods and services."
ABC News reported in 2018 that Trump hadvoluntarily donated $151,470 to the U.S. Treasury, which a Trump Organization attorney said "fulfills our pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage at our hotels and similar business during President Trump’s term in office."
However, government ethics watchdogs questioned the amount of the donation, saying the methodology used did not require the Trump Organization to account for revenues earned from foreign-government patrons of unprofitable Trump properties.
In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed lawsuits accusing Trump ofprofiting from his presidency, on the grounds that he is no longer in office.
