Representative Caroline B. The commission said in a statement Monday. “These documents, which the Committee continues to obtain from Mazars, will inform our legislative efforts to ensure that future presidents do not abuse their positions of power for personal gain.”
Hotel records show lavish spending by foreign officials. The Malaysian prime minister spent $1,500 on a personal trainer over eight days, $259,724 at the Trump Hotel, for example, and the Saudi Ministry of Defense spent $85,961 at the hotel for members of a Saudi delegation, including $10,500 in suites for the night. Qatari officials spent more than $300,000 over a three-month period prior to a meeting between Trump and the emir of the Arab state.
The Oversight Committee’s findings are based on financial documents based on extensive reporting by The Washington Post detailing how the Trump Hotel has benefited foreign governments during his time in office and the blurring of lines between his work and his administration.
Last year, Maloney and Representative Gerald Connolly (Democrat from Virginia) were released. Hundreds of pages of financial documents It relates to Trump’s property from the General Services Administration – the agency that leased the federally-owned Trump Company property – and estimated that the Trump Hotel received $3.7 million over three years in payments from foreign governments.
Trump and the oversight committee reached an agreement in September after years of litigation that would finally allow the committee to see a limited set of Trump’s records with Mazars to review his compliance with presidential ethics and disclosure laws.
The records released Monday cover a limited period, but Maloney has requested additional documents from the National Archives, including all documents and correspondence relating to the Trump hotel or hotel accommodations at Trump properties, and documents and communications relating to foreign payments to the Trump hotel. and documents and correspondence related to Chinese or Russian tourism at the Trump Hotel or the residences of Chinese or Russian officials.
The committee also found that Republican lobbyists with close ties to the Trump administration and who were working on behalf of these countries spent tens of thousands at the Trump Hotel during the same periods.
Elliot Broidy, vice chairman of the Trump Victory Committee and then vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, stayed at Trump’s hotel “for four nights during the Malaysian delegation’s visit and spent $5,345 over the course of September 2017,” Maloney wrote to acting archivist Debra Stedelwall at A letter explaining the results of the committee. Broidy Later Admission of guilt To act as an unregistered foreign agent and admitted to secretly lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese interests.
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