A top House Democrat is calling on Donald Trump to return the nearly $8 million he collected from foreign governments while he was president.
A report released last week by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee alleges that Trump’s companies — mostly his hotels and resorts — were paid at least $7.8 million by countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The report, which includes more than 100 pages of documents detailing the payments, argued the transactions violated a constitutional ban on payments from foreign governments to public officials.
Democrats have renewed a focus on the foreign payments Trump received while president, pointing to the Constitution, which prohibits elected officials from accepting emoluments, or profits, from a foreign state without approval from Congress.
The decision by the court left open the question of whether presidents can receive payments from foreign governments without approval from Congress.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Clinton, Iowa, on Jan. 06, 2024.
The former president's son, Eric Trump, claimed last week that his father's foreign profits were donated to the Treasury Department. »