The missing gifts Trump received include diamond earrings, golf clubs, and a soccer ball from Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reported.
Then-President Donald Trump talks to reporters while hosting Republican Congressional leaders and members of his Cabinet in the Oval Office at the White House on July 20, 2020.Congressional investigators are looking for gifts foreign governments gave Trump and his family.The House Oversight Committee has asked whether the gifts were transferred to the National Archives.
The gifts include diamond earrings, golf clubs, a large painting of Trump, a gold-plated collar of the Egyptian god Horus, a 2018 World Cup soccer ball from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a $6,400 collar of King Abdulaziz al Saud from Saudi Arabia, a person familiar with the request told the paper.It is unclear why the committee requested to locate these specific items and how far it is in the process of trying to find them, the paper said.
The Oversight committee launched a probe this summer into whether Trump properly followed the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, which prevents government officials from keeping gifts from foreign governments with a value of over $415, unless they personally pay for them. "If you have a very valuable item that you are obligated by law to turn over to the federal government and you fail to do that, I don't know that would preclude a criminal action — we've just never seen it done," Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel at CREW, an ethics watchdog organization, told the paper.
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