Democrat Nukes Trump And His Daughter Ivanka For Profiting Off ‘Favors’ From China While In White House

Alex GriffingJun 26th, 2024, 3:54 pm
 

Robert Garcia

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) took aim at former President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka profiting from China while they were both in the White House during a House hearing on Wednesday.

The GOP-led hearing was called, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare,” but many Democrats on the committee used their time to remind Americans of Trump’s business dealing with China, which continued even while he was president.

“And let’s be clear about the facts. The former president spent his time in office collecting payments from China and many other countries through his businesses. He refused to divest from those businesses and broke decades of precedent,” Garcia said, adding:

Now, we all know that the Constitution has a specific prohibition from receiving payments from foreign governments. Our committee, this committee actually had an investigation that documented cash flowing directly from the Chinese government, state-owned businesses, into the businesses and pockets of the Trump family. Here is just some of that. We know that the People’s Republic of China, including state-owned enterprises, sent more than 5.5 million to the Trump Organization.

And just to be clear, it’s a minimum of 5.5 million because we only have data and a few of the Trump locations is likely much, much higher. A number that China actually spent money and drove money into the Trump Organization, of course, while Donald Trump was the president. This is unconstitutional and threatens our national security. Now, these, of course, aren’t the only favors that the Trump family got from China just months after he took office.

The Chinese government suddenly reversed long-standing policies and awarded Trump 38 new trademarks in China for industries related to restaurants and advertising. And of course, this went beyond just Donald Trump himself. In April of 2017, with Trump’s White House in chaos, many people, including the Chinese government, were all trying to gain influence. During this time, Ivanka Trump was working in the White House, got preliminary approval for three Chinese trademarks on the same day that Donald Trump had dinner with XI Jinping at Mar-A-Lago. And remember, Ivanka never divested her company while she was working in the White House. Now, President Trump also overruled our own security officials in our own government and publicly promised to save jobs at the Chinese government telecom company, which was facing sanctions. And the list goes on and on and on.


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