A golden golf club from Japan and swords from Saudi Arabia\u2019s royal family were among the gifts that legislators in the United States say the family of former President Donald Trump failed to disclose during his time in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement released on Friday, Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee listed more than 100 items they allege Trump and his family did not report during his four years in the White House. The items were valued at more than $250,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the list were 16 gifts from Saudi Arabia worth more than $45,000 in total \u2014 including a dagger valued at up to $24,000 \u2014 and 17 presents from India that included expensive cufflinks, a vase and a $4,600 model of the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the U.S. Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, the president, vice president and their families are required to report gifts offered by foreign officials that are valued above several hundred dollars. The State Department has a Diplomatic Gift Unit to maintain records of those presents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the oversight panel, accused Trump and his administration of \u201cbrazen disregard for the rule of law\u201d and a \u201csystematic mishandling of large gifts from foreign governments.\u201d In a statement, Raskin promised to investigate the whereabouts of the \u201cmany lavish personalised gifts\u201d that were never reported, adding that the panel was working to determine \u201cwhether they may have been used to influence the president in his conduct of US foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The list also featured a larger-than-life painting of Trump from the president of El Salvador that committee investigators believe may have been moved to Florida, where Trump owns a beachfront mansion and three golf clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also unaccounted for were thousands of dollars in golf clubs given to Trump in 2018 and 2019 by Shinzo Abe, the then-prime minister of Japan. Those included a $3,755 gold golf driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a joint statement, Democrats said their report \u201craises significant questions about why former president Trump failed to disclose these gifts to the public, as required by federal law.\u201d The probe echoes a recent investigation launched by Brazilian authorities into allegations that former President Jair Bolsonaro sought to bring jewellery gifted from Saudi Arabia \u2014 valued at more than $3.2 million \u2014 into the country during his tenure without declaring it as an official gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, Bolsonaro \u2014 who is closely aligned with the former U.S. president, earning him the moniker \u201cTropical Trump\u201d \u2014 was ordered to turn over a set of the jewellery that had made it past Brazil\u2019s customs enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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