His hotels and other businesses Donald Trump received more than $7.8 million from 20 countries, including China and Saudi Arabia, when he was US president, in violation of the US Constitution, according to report by Democrats in Congress.

The report, titled: “The White House for Sale,” was based on data released by the accounting firm that previously managed Trump’s estate after a legal dispute.

According to the report, officials from 20 countries — including China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Democratic Republic of Congo — made payments in 2017 and 2018 to four Trump properties and the family business. Trump Organization.

“While president, Donald Trump accepted more than $7.8 million from foreign nations and their leaders, including some of the world’s most immoral regimes,” the report charged, which accuses the former president of “seeing to pass through his hands” a part of this money.

The four properties, mentioned in the report, are the offices and Trump Tower apartmentsan iconic skyscraper on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, and hotels and apartments in New York, Las Vegas and Washington.

For example, the state-owned Chinese bank ICBC rented offices in Trump Tower, with Beijing paying a total of $5.5 million to the former US president’s company.

“Former President Trump violated the Constitution when his companies accepted this money without congressional approval,” the Democrats charged.

And “Saudi Arabia paid at least $615,422 to former President Trump’s companies while he was still in office,” they added.

The US Constitution prohibits a sitting president — as well as any public official and minister — from accepting gifts or money from foreign governments without the approval of Congress.

The former businessman, who is again running for the Republican nomination and is likely to face Joe Biden again in the November election, has faced questions and criticism about his business activities since 2017, when he took office of the USA. He had then put his sons in charge of his companies, but retained control over them.

Democrats have explained that their findings are limited to the first two years of Trump’s presidency and four of his properties, estimating that the revelations relate to only a fraction of the money the former president earned from foreign governments while in the White House.

In 2022, Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives while a congressional committee was investigating possible wrongdoing by Trump and were forced to end the investigation as they could no longer push for the disclosure of his company assets.