has had to give testimony in the various congressional Russia inquiries, with Democrats believing he may have misled one committee over his Trump Tower meeting to receive Russian dirt on Clinton. What Democrats Have Done: Donald Trump Jr. That investigation resulted in a report that concluded no wrongdoing on the part of the Bidens, but the State Department, the Trump Organization, and every part of the Trump White House have completely stonewalled similar Democratic probes with the help of the courts, so it’s tough to say what an inquiry into the Trump children might produce. What Would Normally Happen: We need only look to what the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Finance Committee have been able to accomplish with their joint investigation of Hunter Biden’s alleged cronyism, which yielded more than 16,000 records from the State Department and many other documents. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance overruled office prosecutors to drop the inquiry after a meeting with their lawyer, who subsequently donated and helped raise more than $50,000 to Vance’s reelection campaign. and Ivanka were under investigation in New York City in 2012 after they allegedly confessed in emails to fraudulently inflating the number of sales at a New York property to lure new investors. with crimes related to his infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. Most famously, special counsel Robert Mueller refused to charge Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka have also evaded previous run-ins with the law. Ivanka was also heavily involved in the organization’s most questionable licensing and property deals, including one in Azerbaijan that has been linked to apparent money laundering. When the New York Times reported Trump’s tax returns last month, one of the most brazen apparent tax cheat schemes involved one of his companies secretly paying Ivanka to be a “consultant” while she was already collecting a separate salary as an employee there. The Trump Organization is currently under investigation by state officials in New York, and Eric Trump recently gave a deposition over questions of fraud at the company. More recently, they may have committed a number of federal and state crimes prior to their father’s elevation to the White House. government $13,700 for guest rooms, $16,500 for food and wine and $6,000 for the roses and other floral arrangements.”Īs children, they literally shook down the help! At one dinner, Trump and his kids charged the “U.S. On Tuesday, the Washington Post’s David Farenthold reported that the amount the government spent at Trump properties was even more than we knew, amounting to $2.5 million to the Trump family. Taxpayers pay as much as $650 per night for these stays, with the Washington Post reporting the Secret Service alone has spent more than $1 million in taxpayer money at Trump properties.
As reported by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Eric last year claimed that when administration members and Secret Service visit Trump properties, “they stay at our properties for free,” with only nominal housekeeping fees charged.The short list of these destinations includes Uruguay, India, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, and Dubai. After promising at the start of their father’s term to do no “new” international business, the brothers have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in Secret Service fees to accompany them on international travel to hawk Trump licensing deals around the world.