Posted on 03/18/2023 1:48:12 AM PDT by conservative98
A massive portrait and several golf clubs gifted to former President Donald Trump by foreign leaders while in office are unaccounted for, according to a report released by House Democrats on Friday.
The missing gifts are among more than 100 – worth nearly $300,000 – that Trump and his family failed to disclose, as required by law, the interim staff report by House Oversight Committee Democrats notes.
During its year-long investigation, the committee discovered White House emails referencing a “larger than-life-sized painting” of Trump commissioned by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
The work of art was delivered to the US Embassy in El Salvador just prior to the 2020 election, and on Nov. 19, 2020, US Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador Ronald Johnson notified the White House Gift Office and State Department Diplomatic Gift Unit about the painting and asked for help shipping it to the then-president.
“There are no records of the painting’s disposition. [The National Archives and Records Administration] had no records of this painting and [the General Services Administration] also had no records for the purchase of this gift,” the report found.
The report adds that “certain records suggest the portrait may have been moved to Florida as ‘property of the former President’ in July 2021.”
Federal law prohibits government officials from keeping personal gifts from foreign governments worth more than $415.
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Also missing are golf clubs valued at more than $7,000 that Trump received from the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, including a $3,755 gold driver he received as president-elect, a putter valued at $460 and another driver worth $3,040, according to the report.
“NARA has no records of these golf clubs and does not have the golf clubs in its custody. GSA also has no records of the golf clubs being purchased.
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The Feds have already raided mar a Lago. Can’t be there.
Notice they don’t know where the loot is, but it must be Trump took it.
Was it a classified painting? How about the putter? Isn’t failing to give a rip about donated kitsch a felony?
Does anyone recall ever hearing much about the “National Archives” prior to Trump? Outside of the Sandy Burglar incident I can’t remember any time in our history where our national librarians were so important and vital to the nation.
House Demoncrats.
Figures.
The National Archives has already been exposed as being extreme democrat partisans. The FBI raided and rifled through everything at Mar A Lago. If any of those items are there they would know it.
“certain records suggest”
Sources say....
They’ve been looking for the White House china since January 2001.
Gift golf clubs given 11/2016. If he wasn’t yet president, why should any gifts given before inauguration be counted ?
Ehh-Zackly
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