Trump Made $160 MILLION In Foreign Business Deals While President

Republicans in the House voted this week to formalize their impeachment inquiry against President Biden, but if they want to look at foreign influence peddling, their eyes need to be on Donald Trump. According to a new analysis, Trump made $160 million worth of business deals with foreign governments while he was serving as president - a move that should be immediately disqualifying for a public official. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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So Republicans on Wednesday unanimously in the House of Representatives, every single Republican voted in favor of expanding the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, because by God, we gotta know if that man was influenced, peddling, cashing in on his name through his connections while in office, you know, through his son, obviously. Is he getting money from foreign governments? Because if so, oh man, that sure seems illegal to Republicans, even though they've spent a year investigating it and haven't been able to link him to anything. They, they, they're certain that Biden was cashing in on his time in office. I mean, could you imagine anything worse? Well, luckily the folks at Citizens for Responsibility and ethics in Washington can imagine worse, and they've put together a new analysis released this week that has revealed that Donald Trump through the Trump organization, uh, made $160 million off of foreign governments while Donald Trump was president of the United States.

$160 million. You do the math, four years, that's 40 million a year. The Trump organization was pulling in from foreign governments while Donald Trump was president of the United States, making decisions that did benefit the countries where Donald Trump was doing business. So you guys may be looking at the wrong president if you're looking to find international influence, pedaling and profiteering, because it sure as hell seems like that is 100% Donald Trump, and not at all Joe Biden. But we don't live in a country where facts matter. I mean, I hate to say that, but that's the God's honest truth. Republicans in Congress are on a fishing expedition. Meanwhile, the, the Trump fish keeps jumping in the boat like, here, catch me, catch me. Here I am. They're like, Nope, throw it back. Throw it back. It's not big. It's not regulation. Let's just keep fishing over here in the Biden pond.

And they got nothing. It's $160 million while the guy was president of the United States coming from foreign governments. And for the record, yeah, Trump wasn't running his company while he was president of the United States, but he didn't divest, so he was still pulling in the profits. So he knew that he could make decisions such as, uh, Trump's withdrawal of US troops from Syria, an action that benefited neighboring Turkey, where the Trump organization did business. In another instance, the former president held off in on enacting tariffs on Argentina until he received approval for trademarks for his company, not to mention the trademarks that he and his daughter achieve from China. I mean, the, the list goes on and on, folks, like, it's very obvious he makes

Decisions as president based on what's gonna make him money. Seriously. When Democrats actually had control of the House of Representatives for the first two years of Biden, uh, they should have looked into this. I, I, I mean that's kind of obvious here, but it is what it is. Biden's the one who's getting investigated for it while Trump was doing it out in the open and gets away with everything.