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Claiming ‘This is what I got’
Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, is good at “rule-breaking” such as tax evasion, election fraud, and concealment of national secret documents. rice field.
Now, however, the odds of him being arrested on March 21 are increasing.
It seems to be a stingy charge of misappropriating campaign funds for hush money paid to a pornographic actress who was allegedly having an affair.
The beginning of a series of prosecutions to follow. This is the first time that a former president has been arrested.
A new law violation has suddenly surfaced for Mr. Trump.
Originally, luxury items worth more than $20 received from foreign leaders during his presidency should be returned to the US government (National Archives of Japan = NARA).
They were gifts donated to the American people, not received by the President or his family.
However, it is said that Mr. Trump said to his aides, “This is what I got,” while he was in office.
Federal law provides for a “compensation clause provision.” Trump is the only president in history to violate the law. This applies to the First Lady and all her sons and daughters.
However, it was revealed in an interim report released by the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on March 17 that Trump’s family was “sticking” to them.
(The Trump Administration’s Failure to Disclose Major Foreign Gifts)
Among the approximately 100 items whose whereabouts are unknown, a golf putter worth $460 (approximately ¥60,000) and a driver worth $3,040 (approximately ¥400,000) given by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. If it is included, we Japanese will be interested.
In November 2020, before Trump was sworn in as president, Abe visited the Trump office in New York, where he bought $3,755 worth of gold putters and drivers.*1was donated.
(There is no obligation to return these to the U.S. government since Mr. Trump was inaugurated as president.)
*1= It is known that this is the “BERESS-05” released by Honma Golf in 2020 and was purchased by a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official at the Honma Golf store in Yaesu, Chuo Ward before Mr. Abe left.
(Japan’s Prime Minister Gave Trump a $3,800 Golden Golf Club)