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According to research by the Democrats, these are companies that were owned by former US President Donald Trump during his time in office Millions of foreign governments taken. Democrats on the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee published a 156-page report on Thursday, according to which Trump’s hotels and properties received at least $7.8 million (about Swiss francs 6.6 million) in payments from at least 20 countries registered. presidency, including of local governments and state-controlled companies. The majority of the payments – more than five million dollars – came from Chinaincluding from the Chinese embassy in the US and the Chinese state bank ICBC.

“These countries often spent a lot of money on apartments and hotel stays in Donald Trump’s properties has personally enriched President Trump while making foreign policy decisions related to their political agenda and had far-reaching consequences for the United States,” the report said. It contains a detailed breakdown of individual countries’ payments to Trump’s properties and hotels. In addition to donations from China and some Larger amounts in the six-figure range, for example from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwaitbut it also includes small amounts of less than $10,000 from other countries.

The report is based on documents from an accounting firm that long worked for Trump’s companies. The committee fought for the documents to be made public in long-standing legal disputes. However, this effort was halted after the transition of power in the House of Representatives, when Trump’s Republicans took control there.

The top Democrat on the audit committee, Jamie Raskin, complained that the documents released so far only provide insight into a few payments – from two years of the Trump presidency and into four of his companies. The $7.8 million was “almost certainly just a fraction of Trump’s harvest of illegal foreign government money.”

Trump wants to run for the Republicans again in the next American presidential elections in early November. He is currently well ahead of the Republican presidential candidates in the polls. (rbu/sda/dpa)