Several gifts given by foreign countries to Donald Trump are unaccounted for in government records. The missing items included a $3,500 golf set from Japan’s prime minister, and “a larger-than-life-sized painting” of Trump from El Salvador’s president.
Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 Several gifts given by foreign countries to Donald Trump during his presidency are unaccounted for in government records, according to a report released Friday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which detailed ways in which the Trump White House had failed to follow the law in how it handled gifts.
Each government department and agency is required to submit a list to the State Department of gifts over $415 its officials received from foreign governments. Officials can keep those gifts if they are willing to reimburse the government their appraised value. The measure is intended to ensure that foreign governments do not gain undue influence over U.S. officials.
The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said that Democratic investigators on the committee, which is now controlled by the Republican majority in the House, would continue to try to track what had happened to the gifts and understand how Trump, his family and his White House apparently failed to follow the law governing how they should be handled.
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