Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would return to the country a gold golf club given to him by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. It has been about four weeks since the U.S. House of Representatives said that some gifts he received from foreign governments while in office did not belong to the state.
Former President Trump said on his social media ‘True Social’ on the 11th, “I am happy to report that after a search, I was able to find a golden (painted!) screwdriver.” He was in the locker at the Beach Trump International Golf Club with others.”
Previously, the US House Oversight Committee announced on the 17th of last month that former President Trump and his family did not report about 100 gifts worth about 300,000 dollars (390 million won) from foreign governments while in office. According to the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), gifts received by the president from abroad become property of the US people. NARA recovered almost everything except for the $7,000 (about 9.1 million won) worth of golf clubs and a life-size portrait received from the president of El Salvador that former President Trump received while he was elected.
Former President Trump said, “I was told that there is no obligation to report based on the fact that I received this golf club before taking office. Still, he submits to NARA.”
Meanwhile, New York Manhattan District Attorney General Alvin Bragg, who prosecuted former President Trump for fabricating documents related to the suspicion of ‘silencing sexual scandal’, filed a kind of injunction lawsuit against Republican lawmakers to stop intimidation and attacks.
According to the US New York Times (NYT), on this day, Prosecutor Bragg filed a complaint against the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and the Judiciary Committee of the Republican Party in the Southern District Court of New York on the same day. The House Judiciary Committee last week sent a subpoena to former Manhattan District Attorney Pomeranz, who was in charge of the investigation of former President Trump, to appear on the Judiciary Committee and testify. It is to ask the court to stop the execution of this subpoena. In the complaint, Prosecutor Bragg argued that “Republican lawmakers are interfering in New York state criminal cases,” and that “members are not free to violate New York’s sovereignty for political purposes.”
Source: Donga
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