Several items gifted to former President Donald Trump from foreign governments while he was in office remain unaccounted for, raising concerns about why the gifts were not disclosed to the StateDept as required by federal law.
The Trump administration failed to report more than 100 foreign gifts that were given to the president and his family members during his time in office, including some gifts that have been valued at thousands of dollars, according to a report by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The lack of reporting has prompted criticism from members of the committee, who question whether the gifts influenced Trump’s foreign policy while he was president.
Additionally, any gift that exceeds the minimum value must be publicly disclosed and reported to the State Department, which is then compiled into an annual report in the Federal Register. Federal officials first raised concerns after the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a report in November 2021 indicating the Trump administration was “missing items of a significant value” that were gifted to the president. The report concluded that a “lack of accurate recordkeeping and appropriate physical security controls contributed to the loss of the gifts.”
As a result, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the Archives in June 2022 requesting documents on the foreign gifts Trump had received while in office. Internal White House records obtained by the panel show that the Trump administration failed to report all foreign gifts received by the president not only in 2020 but throughout all four years of his presidency.
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