A parliamentary inquiry revealed on Friday that some of the many gifts received by the billionaire are worth a total of more than 250,000 dollars.
Where have the golf clubs given to Donald Trump by Japan gone? And the gigantic portrait of the American president, coming from El Salvador? A parliamentary inquiry on Friday revealed some of the many gifts received by the billionaire that he did not declare.
This investigation, led by Democrats in the House of Representatives, evokes a hundred objects offered to the Trump family between 2016 and 2021, with a total value of more than 250,000 dollars.
Larger than life portrait
The report mentions among other things a dagger estimated at 24,000 dollars and sabers, donated by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which were not correctly declared. He also mentions emails from the White House regarding a larger-than-life portrait of Donald Trump donated by El Salvador that authorities have lost track of.
Documents obtained by elected officials leading the investigation suggest that this painting could have been moved to the luxurious residence of the billionaire in Florida. The administration in charge of these gifts also fails to get its hands on golden golf clubs, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave to the president just after his election for “cultivate a special relationship“.
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The head of the parliamentary inquiry, Jamie Raskin, said to himself “determined to locate the missing gifts (…) and establish whether they may have been used to influence the President’s foreign policy“. Not declaring these objects is against the law, he warns.
Also included in this long list is a portrait of Ivanka Trump printed on mother-of-pearl, given to the president’s daughter by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2017. Her husband Jared Kushner was the architect of Donald Trump’s strategy in the Middle East. East. Donald Trump’s entourage did not react to AFP’s requests.