A Report from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), shows Trump's Businesses made from Foreign Governments while in Office. roughly $160 million from his Business dealings outside the U.S.
When Trump took Office, instead of putting His Assists in a Private Trust, He turned-over His Assist to His CIO to Control. But Trump maintaind His 51% of the Business, that included its Profits.
CREW is a Nonprofit Organization that Investigates Corruption in American Politics, and they released the First Report in April, 2023 on Trump’s International Business dealings while in Office.
Trump's Tax Returns and Financial Data from the years he was in the Oval Office, showed that he pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars in Business Earnings from Foreign Countries, many of which he had Major Conflicts-of-Interest in.
About One-Third of the Cash came from Trump’s Aberdeen and Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, which netted Trump $58 million, while a now-closed Hotel in Vancouver brought in $36.5 million from Canada.
Trump made $24.4 million in Ireland, as well as another $9.7 million in Indonesia, and 9.6 million in India, money which CREW’s Rebbecca Jacobs and Robert Maguire say Trump should have never been Allowed to Earn.
While the Report couldn’t directly tie the Money from His International Business Dealings, to any Quid-Pro-Quo Political arrangement, it did address Trump's many Conflicts of Interest, and suggest it wasn’t all earned in Good Faith.
“Throughout his time in office, President Trump, his family, and his Republican allies repeatedly assured the public that his refusal to divest from his businesses wouldn’t lead to any conflicts of interest,” Jacobs and Maguire’s Report read.
“When it came to foreign conflicts of interest, Trump and his company pledged to pause foreign business. They did not,” the Report added before Listing some of the most glaring Issues that occurred during Trump’s time in Office.
A good example of Trump’s obvious Conflicts of Interest came in 2018, when he allegedly asked the then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, to change the Location of the British Open to His Turnberry Golf Resort in Scotland.
According to a 2019 CREW's Report, Trump has had thousands of Interactions like the One in 2018, with 2,222 Recorded Incidents of TrumpPproperties being visited by Government Officials and 272 Governmental Events being held at Trump Properties.
CREW's Investigators added that there was "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."
In February 2021, CREW's Jordan Libowitz and Caitlin Moniz, released a different Report on the amount of Money Trump made during His time in Office, a number that reached $1.6 billion in Outside Revenue and income, throughout the Four years of His Presidency.
The Trump Organization earned at least $1,613,583,013, according to the Report, while Trump claimed $1,790,614,202, but the Report's Authors noted it was difficult to know for sure how much Trump took home from that Numbers, due to the vague nature of some of the Items claimed as well as the Structure of His Business.
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