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The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday.

Those payments collectively included millions of dollars from China’s Embassy in the United States, a state-owned Chinese bank accused by the US Justice Department of helping North Korea evade sanctions and a state-owned Chinese air transit company. Accounting records from Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars USA, were obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

In a report, the House Democrats say that China is one of 20 countries that made at least $7.8 million in total payments to Trump-owned businesses and properties during the former president’s stint in the White House, including his hotels in Washington DC, New York and Las Vegas.

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago

he sold you out to the Chinese, the Russians, the Saudis, anyone who had cash and would play ball, you morons who voted for him

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i didn't vote for him or support him in any way.. i knew he was a crook and a loser.. i knew what to expect..

my fellow citizens sold me out.. the people right across the street did..

[-] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

I know it's a low bar but I'm proud I've never once thought Trump was a good person. How over 70 million are that gullible, even when considering lead exposure, poor education, and right-wing misinformation, I may never fully understand...

Meanwhile the grifted continue to blame the poor immigrant fleeing crime & poverty south of the border while ignoring the big fish like China, Russia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia that are buying up massive swaths of land and resources. Hell even the King of Jordan owns two beachfront Malibu properties.

But it's the poor laborer they're worried about, lmao...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

That's the power of propaganda 🌈✨

I mean, they have to have some sort of predisposition to lean that way in the first place but i don't think it's necessarily born out of hate so much as fear

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Been reading through Bloom Counties entire comic series. They were bagging on Trump in 1989. This is old news to us old people.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

Of course they did. All his real American swag bullshit is made there too.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Uh, I believe it's spelled JINA.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

But JOE BIDEN!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rich Scumbag Uses Position To Personally Enrich Themselves?

Ya don't say???

This same shit could be written more than half of corporate America and political America (one and the same, I know).

It will be news when rich scumfucks don't use their positions to personally enrich themselves.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

There has never been a president so transparently corrupt. Prior rich scumbags would at least attempt to hide their corruption. We have witnessed the end of shame as a deterrent.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Definitely. But. It should not be normalized and society should be angry

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

But if he was in the pocket of the Chinese, why would he wear that pin?

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