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When the House Democrats’ report [[link removed]] on the millions Trump received from foreign governments was released last week, it pulled directly from CREW’s research—citing our work 16 times. We’re glad to see all the renewed calls for accountability, because before we sued Trump for being an insurrectionist and disqualified from office, we sued him over this exact type of corruption.
On Trump’s first day in office, CREW sued him under the Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution and tracked his corruption and conflicts of interest from that moment on. We counted visits to his properties by him, members of Congress and officials from around the world. [[link removed]]
Here’s what we found: for four years, Trump used the presidency for profit and accumulated at least 3,737 conflicts of interest by the time he left office.
How did he rack up that staggering total? Trump visited his own properties 547 times while in office, including 145 visits to Mar-a-Lago and 328 visits to his golf courses. But he didn’t always go alone. He’d bring other senior government officials along and reward them with access for their patronage—in the end, 143 members of Congress made 361 visits to Trump businesses, and special interest groups likely spent more than $13 million at Trump properties.
Foreign governments joined the party, too: 150 officials from 77 foreign governments made visits to Trump’s properties, and foreign governments or groups sponsored by foreign governments hosted over a dozen events at those properties. One of Trump’s companies also received 69 trademarks from 11 foreign governments, including China. China is also the foreign government that spent the most money at his properties during his presidency, according to the House Democrats’ report—followed by Argentina and the EU.
All of these conflicts of interest and all of his profiteering added up: By the end of his presidency, he’d brought in up to $160 million in foreign business dealings while president [[link removed]] .
While we meticulously tracked these conflicts for years, Trump’s conflicts were so egregious that there are likely many more conflicts that haven’t even become public yet. And it’s safe to assume he’s hoping to make millions of dollars while in office if he is elected to the presidency again.
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