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Golden golf clubs from Japan, swords and daggers from Saudi Arabia, life-size portrait from El Salvador: former US President Donald Trump is said to have declared during his term. A report released Friday by House Democrats spoke of more than 100 gifts given to Trump and his family during the Republican’s tenure in the White House.
The senior Democrat on the House’s oversight committee, Jamie Raskin, accused the previous Trump administration of “blatant disregard for the rule of law and systematic mishandling of large gifts from foreign governments.” The question arises whether the gifts served to influence Trump’s foreign policy.
Some gifts are still missing to this day, Raskin explained. Among them is a larger-than-life portrait of Donald Trump, a gift from the President of El Salvador in 2020.
The preliminary report titled “Saudi Arabian swords, Indian jewelry and a larger-than-life Salvadoran portrait of Donald Trump: The Trump administration’s failure to disclose major gifts from abroad” lists numerous gifts from China, India, Israel , Japan and Austria, among others, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and from the United Arab Emirates.
The gifts went to Trump, his wife Melania, Trump’s daughter Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner — a key presidential adviser during Trump’s time in the White House from 2017 to 2021 — and Trump’s youngest son Barron.
A dagger given to Jared Kushner by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2019 was particularly valuable at $24,000. According to the report, a Steiff teddy bear gifted to Ivanka Trump in 2019 by then-Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz cost $1,200.
(AFP)
Source: Blick
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