$3,755 Gold Golf Membership Japan’s PM Gave to Trump Is Lacking

• A report from Home Democrats stated President Trump didn’t declare greater than 100 overseas presents. 
• The presents had been price greater than $250,000 in complete, based on the report. 
• Some are lacking, together with a $3,755 gold membership Japan’s prime minister gave to Trump.

A brand new report from Home Democrats discovered that former President Donald Trump didn’t declare greater than 100 costly overseas presents, as regulation requires. 

The presents Trump and his household obtained had been price greater than $250,000 in complete, based on the report. 

The Overseas Presents and Decorations Act requires that the president and federal officers declare any presents from overseas governments which are price greater than the “minimal worth” of $415.

Presents Trump obtained embrace a $12,000 silk Uzbek carpet from the President of Uzbekistan and a dagger from the Emir of Qatar that is price $35,000. 

Members of Trump’s household additionally obtained presents. In accordance with the report, Melania Trump obtained quite a lot of these undeclared presents, together with a Saudi winter coat price $3,000 from the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. 

Jared Kushner additionally obtained extremely valued presents together with a $24,000 dagger and a $5,450 sword from bin Salman.

A few of these presents are lacking

A few of the presents have disappeared, the report stated. They embrace golf golf equipment from the prime minister of Japan valued at greater than $7,200 — a single gold golf driver was valued at $3,755 — and a “larger-than-life-sized” portray the president of El Salvador offered to Trump.

“The invention of those unreported overseas presents raises vital questions on why former President Trump didn’t disclose these presents to the general public, as required by regulation,” the report stated. 

It states that “the Trump Administration’s failure to reveal a couple of hundred overseas presents President Trump and his household obtained raises new questions on whether or not these and different presents could have been utilized by overseas governments to affect U.S. coverage underneath President Trump.”

The report concluded with the announcement that authorities will launch an investigation to find any results these presents could have had on the Trump administration’s decision-making.