First on CNN: House Democrats investigating whether foreign gifts to Trump went missing

[AZProgressive]

Washington(CNN) House Democrats are investigating former President Donald Trump's "apparent failure to account for gifts from foreign government officials while in office" after learning there may be thousands of dollars-worth of items that are either missing or were not tracked properly, according to a new letter sent to the National Archives by the House Oversight and Reform Committee chairwoman and first obtained by CNN.

The committee says it has received information from the State Department that "indicates the Trump administration 'did not prioritize this obligation' and failed to comply with the law that governs foreign gift reporting during President Trump's final year in office," the letter states.

"As a result, the foreign sources and monetary value of gifts President Trump received remain unknown," it adds. "The Department of State also stated that it was unable to determine the identities of some government officials who received foreign gifts during the Trump Administration, as well as the sources of those foreign gifts."

The Oversight Committee is now requesting information from the National Archives about the foreign gifts that Trump and members of his family received during the former President's term.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/07/politics/democrats-investigate-trump-foreign-gifts/index.html

[global1]

1. Did This Guy Do Anything Right?....nt

[NCLefty]

13. Please.

😛

[onecaliberal]

2. Everything it did was a crime.

[montanacowboy]

3. Filthy Crooks

everything they touch they steal or corrupt or just plain shit on

how degrading it must be to be a Trump, lower than the slugs in my grass

[Deminpenn]

4. This is a surprise?

Trump and his entourage lived to grift. Betting their thought process was "country x gave this to me, so it's mine" period, end of story.

[sarcasmo]

5. Yes, of course gifts went missing. With Trump, it's proving the theft.

[Eugene]

6. Business as usual in Trump World. TFG openly denounced the emoluments clause as phony.

The administration later said the clause only forbids bribery.

[pandr32]

7. He never saw being POTUS as a role and duty

He saw it as his deserving place. Gifts to him as POTUS were for him--period.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Where is that soccer ball gift from Putin to tRump

from Helsinki?

[sdfernando]

9. No doubt it was filled with helium

then shoved up his ample derriere....how else to you think someone with his girth only weights 236lb???

[BigmanPigman]

11. I was thinking that there was a bug in it

but I think you're more accurate. tRump has a bug up his ass along with an inflated ball.

[louis-t]

10. I do remember one video of a woman walking out the front door with a bust.

Looked mighty suspicious.

[edhopper]

12. DOJ should have been on this

A year and a half ago.