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[link removed] [[link removed]] We just released a new report:

During Donald Trump’s time in the White House, he likely benefited from $13.6 million in payments from foreign governments.

These payments represent an unprecedented violation of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause and serve as a reminder of the many violations Trump is poised to bring into office should he return to the White House.

Building on the work done by the House Oversight Committee earlier this year, we pieced together additional details from our extensive tracking of the ways foreign governments used Trump’s businesses to curry favor with him. Now, we have the most comprehensive view to date of Trump’s first term foreign emoluments—a staggering picture of corruption.

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During Trump’s presidency, CREW tracked what ultimately became thousands of conflicts of interest swirling around him and his businesses—an unheard of level of corruption caused by Trump’s unprecedented refusal to divest from his business empire.

Trump spent his time as president promoting the businesses he profited from while in office and rewarded the patrons, both foreign and domestic, who lined his pockets with access and influence in his administration.

So, how much did he profit?

In January, the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic staff published a report that used financial documents from Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, showing that Trump received at least $7.8 million in emoluments from 20 foreign governments while in office. But even by their own estimation, the analysis was incomplete.

When Republicans took over Congress in January 2023, incoming Chairman James Comer allowed Mazars to stop production of the information. As a result, Congress only received records for two years of Trump’s presidency, covering only four of his hundreds of businesses.

Comer’s decision to let Mazars stop providing documents also resulted in significant portions of the spending that are—and may remain forever—untraceable.

But CREW spent Trump’s presidency meticulously tracking the ways his business interests and day-to-day work as president overlapped. So we were able to build on the Oversight report with information gleaned from our research and other public reporting.

Here’s what we found:

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$5,730,430 from China. $3,991,000 from the United Kingdom. $1,103,244 from Qatar. $885,422 from Saudi Arabia. The list goes on to total over $13 million from foreign governments.

John, this report focuses only on government spending that Trump benefited from as president. It does not include the tens of millions of dollars that Trump brought in from businesses around the world that can’t definitively be traced back to government sources.

And the totals in this report are inherently conservative because Trump’s payments from foreign governments are often hard to quantify, if they can even be tracked at all.

We may never know the true extent of foreign emoluments given to Trump, but we are confident that what is detailed here is just the tip of the iceberg.

Trump’s refusal to divest from his businesses led to numerous instances where Trump acted in ways that appeared to benefit his own personal finances rather than the national interest of the country he served. It was concern over this kind of corruption, or even the appearance of corruption, that prompted the founders to include the Foreign Emoluments Clause in the Constitution in the first place.

During Trump’s presidency, CREW took thousands of legal actions holding him accountable for his blatant corruption and violations of the law, including suing him over his violations of the Emoluments Clauses. We will continue to track and call out his conflicts of interest as long as it takes.

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Robert Maguire
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