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Demovictory9
Oct 2021
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dalton99a
(81,707 posts)1. Kick
These documents show:
Former President Trump Reported Massive Revenues at the Trump Hotel, Concealing that the Hotel Suffered $70 Million in Net Losses. On his federally mandated financial disclosures, President Trump reported that the Trump Hotel earned him over $150 million in revenue during his time in office. However, the records obtained by the Committee show that the Trump Hotel actually incurred net losses of over $70 million, leading the former Presidents holding company to inject at least $24 million to aid the struggling hotel. By filing these misleading public disclosures, President Trump grossly exaggerated the financial health of the Trump Hotel. He also appears to have concealed potential conflicts of interest stemming not just from his ownership of this failing business but also from his roles as the hotels lender and the guarantor of its third-party loans.
While in Office, President Trump Received Preferential Treatment Potentially Worth Millions from a Foreign Bank. The documents show that in 2018, Deutsche Bank provided President Trump with a significant financial benefit by allowing him to delay making principal payments on the Trump Hotels $170 million loanwhich Trump had personally guaranteedfor a period of six years. Without this deferral, the hotel may have needed to pay tens of millions of additional dollars to Deutsche Bank at a time when it was already facing steep losses. Mr. Trump did not publicly disclose this significant benefit from a foreign bank while he was President.
The Trump Hotel Received Over $3.7 Million from Foreign Governments. Based on the Committees analysis, from 2017 through 2020, the Trump Hotel received an estimated $3.7 million in payments from foreign governments, raising concerns about possible violations of the Constitutions Foreign Emoluments Clause. This amount would have been sufficient to cover over 7,400 nights at the Trump Hotel at the average daily rate. Former President Trump failed to disclose details about these payments to GSA, and he donated to the Treasury only the small portion of these payments that his company determined to be profits.
Former President Trump Concealed Debts When Bidding on Old Post Office Building Lease. In 2011, when he applied to lease the Old Post Office Building, former President Trump provided GSA with financial information that appeared to conceal certain debts. Specifically, he provided a 2008 financial statement that reported over $1.1 billion in outstanding loan balances for properties in Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, and San Francisco. Although these loans remained outstanding in 2009 and 2010, President Trump omitted them from his financial statements for those years, hiding key information.
The Trump Hotel Moved Around Millions of Dollars in Opaque Transactions with Other Trump Businesses. President Trump transferred millions of dollars in and out of his D.C. Hotel through affiliated entities and opaque transactions, raising questions about GSAs ability to enforce provisions that prohibited President Trump from taking money out of the business.
Former President Trump Reported Massive Revenues at the Trump Hotel, Concealing that the Hotel Suffered $70 Million in Net Losses. On his federally mandated financial disclosures, President Trump reported that the Trump Hotel earned him over $150 million in revenue during his time in office. However, the records obtained by the Committee show that the Trump Hotel actually incurred net losses of over $70 million, leading the former Presidents holding company to inject at least $24 million to aid the struggling hotel. By filing these misleading public disclosures, President Trump grossly exaggerated the financial health of the Trump Hotel. He also appears to have concealed potential conflicts of interest stemming not just from his ownership of this failing business but also from his roles as the hotels lender and the guarantor of its third-party loans.
While in Office, President Trump Received Preferential Treatment Potentially Worth Millions from a Foreign Bank. The documents show that in 2018, Deutsche Bank provided President Trump with a significant financial benefit by allowing him to delay making principal payments on the Trump Hotels $170 million loanwhich Trump had personally guaranteedfor a period of six years. Without this deferral, the hotel may have needed to pay tens of millions of additional dollars to Deutsche Bank at a time when it was already facing steep losses. Mr. Trump did not publicly disclose this significant benefit from a foreign bank while he was President.
The Trump Hotel Received Over $3.7 Million from Foreign Governments. Based on the Committees analysis, from 2017 through 2020, the Trump Hotel received an estimated $3.7 million in payments from foreign governments, raising concerns about possible violations of the Constitutions Foreign Emoluments Clause. This amount would have been sufficient to cover over 7,400 nights at the Trump Hotel at the average daily rate. Former President Trump failed to disclose details about these payments to GSA, and he donated to the Treasury only the small portion of these payments that his company determined to be profits.
Former President Trump Concealed Debts When Bidding on Old Post Office Building Lease. In 2011, when he applied to lease the Old Post Office Building, former President Trump provided GSA with financial information that appeared to conceal certain debts. Specifically, he provided a 2008 financial statement that reported over $1.1 billion in outstanding loan balances for properties in Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, and San Francisco. Although these loans remained outstanding in 2009 and 2010, President Trump omitted them from his financial statements for those years, hiding key information.
The Trump Hotel Moved Around Millions of Dollars in Opaque Transactions with Other Trump Businesses. President Trump transferred millions of dollars in and out of his D.C. Hotel through affiliated entities and opaque transactions, raising questions about GSAs ability to enforce provisions that prohibited President Trump from taking money out of the business.
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/committee-uncovers-evidence-that-trump-concealed-millions-in-losses-hid-debts
elleng
(131,391 posts)2. THANK YOU BOTH!!!
OAITW r.2.0
(24,764 posts)3. Here we go.....the Rule of Law.
Applies to the Lawless.
Recommend - The Comey Rule on Netflix.
SunSeeker
(51,800 posts)4. K & R & Retweeted!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)5. How do they expect to enforce the law when they let this clown get away with so many crimes?
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)6. Who Says They're Going To Enforce It?
Words are meaningless political mumbo jumbo these days.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)7. Love having a progressive Dem as my rep. Feels like a psychological luxury.