Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a report Thursday that seeks to link former President Donald Trump to a foreign influence charging scheme, but it falls far short of conclusive evidence.

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, ranking member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, said President Trump's entities received at least 780 orders from 20 foreign governments and their subsidiaries, including China, in his first two years in office. They released a report revealing that they had raised over $1,000. Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Malaysia. But most of that money came from a company that began leasing office space from Trump Tower in 2008 during the Trump administration and entered into a partnership in 2019. report is shown.

“The difference between Mr. Trump's overseas income and Mr. Biden's overseas income is that Mr. Trump had legitimate goods and services to sell and was tough on China, whereas Mr. Biden had no legitimate business. , Joe was bearish on China,” said Seamus Bruner, director of research. he told the Daily Caller in a statement at the Government Accountability Institute.

Records show that of the $7.8 million Trump's business received from foreign governments during the two years in question, $5.5 million paid for Trump properties came from the Chinese government and state-owned enterprises. Of this amount, the committee estimates that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a Chinese state-owned company, paid $5.3 million for Trump-owned properties between February 2017 and October 2019.

The Chinese company signed a contract for commercial office space with Trump Tower in 2008, according to the report. The deal was signed on October 31, 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic began, with nearly a year and a half left in President Trump's first term.

Trump has made getting tough on China a key part of his foreign policy throughout his presidency, implementing unprecedented tariffs, including a 15% tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods. We took the following steps. Tariffs were initially set at 10%, forcing China to increase imports from the United States.

Additionally, nine of the countries cited in the report paid less than $10,000 to Trump's companies. Cyprus, one of the countries on the list, paid just $590.

According to the report, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, India and Malaysia each spent more than $200,000 on Trump's businesses, but a Trump Organization spokesperson told NPR that all profits from foreign governments were donated. It was pointed out that

Kimberly Benza told NPR that foreign government profits from President Trump's businesses were “entirely donated to the U.S. Treasury for the purpose of sponsoring our facilities during President Trump's tenure.” Mr. Benza mentioned Mr. Trump's $450,000 donation.

Mr. Raskin accused House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of conspiring with Mr. Trump's lawyers to try to block the House Oversight Committee from obtaining additional records about the former president's overseas payments.

“While the numbers and constitutional violations in this report are shocking, we still don't know the amount of foreign payments Donald Trump received, or even the total number of countries that made payments to him and his companies during his presidency. Speaker James Comer and House Republicans suppressed further evidence of the Trump family's shocking corruption,” Raskin said in a statement.

Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Reno Sparks Convention Center on December 17, 2023 in Reno, Nevada. Former US President Trump, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2024 presidential election, held a campaign rally. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The House Democratic report was released as Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden's family's overseas business dealings. From 2014 to 2019, Biden's family and their business associates collected more than $24 million from Ukraine, Russia, China, Romania and Kazakhstan, according to a report in September. memo From House Republicans. That figure is nearly 15 million yen more than what House Democrats say Trump reportedly received.

“Democrats' continued obsession with former President Trump is beyond parody. Former President Trump is running a legitimate business; the Bidens are not. The Bidens and their associates are in China. , made more than $24 million in Biden's name in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Romania. No goods or services were provided other than Joe Biden and access to Biden's network,” Comer told the Daily. -Told the caller.

Biden's son Hunter played a major role in fundraising. After his father left office, Hunter Biden made numerous business deals with foreign companies throughout Trump's presidency. Chinese company CEFC transferred $3 million to Hunter's business partners through an account at State Energy Hong Kong. bank records Previously published by Oversight Committee Shaw.

Hunter Biden's federal taxes indictment The California resident said he received about $1 million of the funds transferred to his State Energy Hong Kong account. He received additional income in 2017 and his 2018 from Hudson West III, an entity he formed with CEFC officials. According to the California indictment, the relationship with Hunter Biden began in 2015, when his father was still vice president. (Related: IRS Whistleblower Can't 'Verify' White House Claims Loan Joe Biden Sent to Family, Testimony Shows)

In November, Comer detailed the series. bank records How money from China passed through multiple accounts in the Biden family and ended up in a $40,000 check to Joe Biden in September 2017.

“Democrats like Jamie Raskin are trying to distract from the fact that the Biden family extorted at least $30 million from foreigners connected to the highest levels of China's military and intelligence community, perhaps the largest amount in U.S. history. 's presidential scandal,'' Bruner said. Daily caller.