Mod: Has Trump ever done anything that didn't have to do with him lining his pockets?Investigation Reveals $160 Million Foreign Money Funnel To Trump While POTUS (Bipartisan Report link): A report from the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, otherwise known as CREW, outlines up to $160 million in foreign income for Donald Trump throughout his time in office, destroying any narrative that he wasn’t profiting in questionable ways while in power — if not in direct connection to the power he held.
In what have been a series of documented circumstances, the money
Trump has made has lined up with foreign policy dilemmas he faced or policy choices he made.
CREW highlighted how
Trump directly connected his personal affinity for
Saudi Arabia to funds he’d made from individuals evidently originating there in commentary at a rally before the 2016 election, although the examples — seen places like
Trump’s now defunct hotel in D.C., where foreign money accumulated while it was still operational and
Donald was still in office — continue.
There’s a distinct possibility, of course, these circumstances represent more than mere coincidences. Per
CREW’s breakdown, the foreign income
Trump made while president — presumably meaning from roughly the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2020 — included tens of millions of dollars across the
United Kingdom,
Canada,
Ireland,
India, and
Indonesia. Country totals ranged from $58 million in the
United Kingdom to almost $9.7 million in
Indonesia, the organization said, evidently pulling info from the ex-president’s tax records.
“The full extent to which
Trump’s foreign business ties influenced his decision making as president may never be known, but there is plenty of evidence that
Trump’s actions in the
White House were influenced–if not guided–by his financial interests, subverting the national interests for his own parochial concerns,”
CREW’s team wrote.
Mod: More at the link.
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