Topline Democratic lawmakers have opened a probe into whether the Trump Administration properly tracked the gifts it received from foreign governments, following reports that Trump-era gift records are incomplete and at least two pricey foreign gifts—including a whiskey bottle worth over $5,000—are unaccounted for. President Donald Trump walks with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud after receiving … [+] the Order of Abdulaziz al-Saud medal in Riyadh on May 20, 2017. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts In a letter released Tuesday, House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) asked the National Records and Archives Administration to hand over any communications on foreign gifts from the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Maloney noted the State Department never got a list of the gifts received in 2020 by the Trump-era White House, even though foreign countries like India and Switzerland appeared to give presents to Trump that year, according to the New York Times. She also pointed to public State Department documents that show spotty recordkeeping on the sources and recipients of many Trump-era foreign gifts, and noted an unnamed State Department employee told the Oversight Committee last month the federal government’s vault for gifts was in “complete disarray” by the time Trump left office. Maloney argued incomplete and missing records on the plush gifts “raise concerns about the potential for undue influence over former President Trump by foreign governments,” and she said the probe may point to violations of the emoluments clause, a secti… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Lawmakers Investigating What Happened To Foreign Gifts Given To Trump Administration
