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(22,669 posts)
Fri May 8, 2020, 12:50 AM May 2020

Democrats demand details of Trump Organization requests for UK coronavirus aid

Source: The Guardian

Congressional investigators in Washington are demanding information about loans and other funds that the Trump Organization has requested from foreign governments, including Britain, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

The demand for information follows a media report last month that said the Trump Organization was seeking UK and Irish bailout funds to cover wages of employees who had been furloughed from the company’s golf properties in Europe due to the pandemic.

In a letter to Eric Trump, the president’s son and vice president of the Trump Organization, Carolyn Maloney, the Democratic chairwoman of the House oversight and reform committee, suggested the decision to seek funding in the UK was problematic and potentially a violation of the US constitution, which calls for a president to have undivided loyalty to the US.

The US Congress has already passed legislation prohibiting US taxpayer funds from being used to benefit companies in which Donald Trump holds a stake.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/08/democrats-demand-details-of-trump-organization-requests-for-uk-coronavirus-aid?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1588912144



Undivided loyalty? IMPotus tRump? Not a chance. He's a yellow coward traitor to the bone.
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Democrats demand details of Trump Organization requests for UK coronavirus aid (Original Post) ffr May 2020 OP
Trump isn't satisfied with just bilking US taxpayers. Lonestarblue May 2020 #1
Cheeky fucker, Maxheader May 2020 #2

Lonestarblue

(9,971 posts)
1. Trump isn't satisfied with just bilking US taxpayers.
Fri May 8, 2020, 08:11 AM
May 2020

He wants to bilk UK taxpayers also. Corruption in plain sight.

Maxheader

(4,372 posts)
2. Cheeky fucker,
Fri May 8, 2020, 08:18 AM
May 2020

Isn't it?..

As I knew, the pigs in every country, have theys muzzles in the corn mash, deep in the troughs..

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