Trump household did not disclose 17 presents from India: Report | World Information

Former US president Donald Trump and his household did not disclose over 100 presents value over $250,000 obtained from overseas international locations throughout his time within the White Home, a report launched on Friday by Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee states. The report added that of the whole 117 presents, 17 had been despatched from India which reportedly value practically $50,000.

The presents embrace a Taj Mahal reproduction value $4,600 ( ₹3.8 lakh) gifted to Modi by former Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and a $1,920 ( ₹1.5 lakh) value cufflinks introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2021. Reportedly, the most costly present from India was a Makrana marble vase costing $8,500 ( ₹7 lakh) given by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in 2021.

From Saudi Arabia, the Trump household had obtained 16 presents value greater than $45,000, together with a dagger value virtually $24,000. A number of unaccounted for gadgets have been reported lacking too.

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Of those, a life-size portray of Trump commissioned by the president of El Salvador earlier than the 2020 elections and golf golf equipment from the then prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe are lacking. The golf golf equipment, which the report says included a putter value $460 and a driver costing $3,040, had been gifted by Abe in 2017 and 2018 throughout visits to the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership and Kasumigaseki Nation Membership.

Presents above a number of hundred {dollars} that overseas officers give to the president, vp and their households are required below the Overseas Presents and Decorations Act to be reported to the State Division. As per the report’s preliminary findings, the variety of presents reported by Trump and his household are decrease than these disclosed by earlier presidents.

PM Modi had additionally given a black marble desk with mother-of-pearl and stone inlay work value $1,400 and a gold bracelet value $2,450 to Trump and his daughter Ivanka in 2019 and 2021, respectively.

“In the present day’s preliminary findings counsel once more the Trump Administration’s brazen disregard for the rule of legislation and its systematic mishandling of huge presents from overseas governments, together with many lavish customised gifts that vastly exceed the statutory restrict in worth however had been by no means reported — some which might be nonetheless lacking in the present day,” the opposition lawmakers stated in an announcement.

They added that the committee would study the extent to which Trump violated the legislation with out paying the honest market worth for the unreported invaluable presents.

(With inputs from AFP)