From late 2017 through mid-2018, government officials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE spent at least $164,000 at the Trump Hotel, while Qatari officials and connected companies spent at least $307,000, the oversight panel found.
From March 7, 2018 to March 14, 2018, the Saudi Ministry of Defense spent more than $85,000, including renting several suites worth $10,500. Two of the officials who stayed there were referred to as “Saada,” suggesting that the Saudi royal family or senior ministers in the government were patronizing the Trump Hotel.
On March 20, 2018, Trump met with Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler, at the White House. Two days later, the White House approved $1.3 billion in arms sales to the Saudi government.
Records released by House investigators also show a total of $65,139 in Charges by the Turkish American Councila non-profit group with ties to the Turkish government.
The council helped sponsor two conferences that took place at the Trump Hotel in Washington in 2017 and 2019, around the same time as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He pushed Mr. Trump and his aides to close the investigation in sanctions violations by a Turkish state-owned bank. The Mission of Turkey and the Embassy of Turkey also had billing records at the hotel, but no details about the amounts paid.
Records from Mazars USA, Mr. Trump’s longtime accounting firm that cut ties with him and his family’s firm this year, also show $19,370 in Expenditure of a delegation from the Chinese Embassy At the Trump Hotel in late August 2017, two months before Mr. Trump Travel to the country.
The Trump Organization sent checks to the Treasury Department totaling $355,687 covering earnings at its hotels during the first three years of Mr. Trump’s term in the White House. But she never provided a breakdown of the foreign government officials who stayed at her hotels.
The House Oversight Committee recently, after years of fighting, entered into a legal settlement with Mazars in which the company agreed to provide a set of financial documents from several years before Mr. Trump took office and during his early presidency. Mazars said in February that He could no longer stand behind a decade of annual financial statements It had been prepared for the Trump Organization.
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