The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday.

Those payments collectively included millions of dollars from China’s Embassy in the United States, a state-owned Chinese bank accused by the US Justice Department of helping North Korea evade sanctions and a state-owned Chinese air transit company. Accounting records from Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars USA, were obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

In a report, the House Democrats say that China is one of 20 countries that made at least $7.8 million in total payments to Trump-owned businesses and properties during the former president’s stint in the White House, including his hotels in Washington DC, New York and Las Vegas.

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    9 months ago

    Rich Scumbag Uses Position To Personally Enrich Themselves?

    Ya don’t say???

    This same shit could be written more than half of corporate America and political America (one and the same, I know).

    It will be news when rich scumfucks don’t use their positions to personally enrich themselves.

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      9 months ago

      There has never been a president so transparently corrupt. Prior rich scumbags would at least attempt to hide their corruption. We have witnessed the end of shame as a deterrent.