Fox News host Jesse Watters ridiculed Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee for trying to argue that a foreign government's stay at a hotel owned by former President Donald Trump influenced peddling.
Maryland Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin report On Thursday, a foreign government claimed to have paid President Trump's company $7.8 million for stays at various hotels owned by the former president in New York, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., and the Democratic Oversight Committee said the payments were constitutional rewards. It was claimed that the money clause was violated. (RELATED: 'That would blow your mind': Rep. Nancy Mace says Biden could have 'opened a bakery in Beijing' with the money Hunter got)
“For the past seven years, Democrats have been investigating whether Trump is corrupt and what have they found? Some foreign nationals stayed at Trump's hotels while he was president.” Watters said. “That's it. Seven years. During Trump's presidency, several people from overseas stayed at his hotels, which Democrats say is against the law. In four years, they traveled to Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia, We found millions of dollars and hotel bills from a couple of guys from Canada. That's like rounding off a guy who's worth billions.”
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“By the way, Trump didn't even own a hotel while he was president,” Watters continued. “He transferred the ownership to his sons. What did the sons do with the money? They didn't buy prostitutes and dabble in it. All foreign funds go to the U.S. Treasury. That's the scandal. Don and Eric didn't get the diamonds or the car. They took that money and gave it back to you, the taxpayers.”
Trump owns luxury hotels and resorts in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Virginia, Miami and Scotland. according to Go to his website.playing cards sold The Washington, DC hotel was sold to CGI Merchant Group in 2022, and the location was rebranded as the Waldorf Astoria.
“Has President Trump become soft on China after paying for Chinese people's room in plain clothes?” Watters asked. Unlike the Bidens, who took four times as much cash and cut the Chinese government short, he started a trade war. ”
The House Oversight Committee estimated in a September memo that the Biden family received at least $24 million from foreign companies and citizens through a network of shell companies. (Related: Former Justice Department official explains how Hunter's cash transfer could land Joe Biden in legal trouble)
“You want to know the main difference between foreigners spending money on Trump and Biden? The Trump family has business. What do the Bidens have? 20 shell companies,” Watters said. said. “In the case of the Trumps, we know what the money went to: room and board, and maybe cocktails and waffles. What did the foreigner give Biden the money for? He They don't have a hotel. The Biden family's business doesn't even have a website. It was a bribe. And they didn't even pay taxes on the bribe.”
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