According to a more than 150-page report titled “The White House for Sale” compiled by the US Congressional Democratic Investigative Committee, Romania is on the list of countries that contributed to Donald Trump’s wealth during his tenure as US president. The Romanian delegation had VIP accommodation in one of the hotels of the former American leader during the period that coincides with the visit of President Klaus Iohannis in June 2017.

According to the report, in the period from May 31 to June 11, 2017, a delegation from our country had a VIP accommodation arranged by the Embassy of Romania in the USA.

According to the official program of the Presidential Administration, Klaus Iohannis visited the USA on June 5-9, 2017.

The program of the visit included: meetings with US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Acting President of the US Senate Orin Hatch.

On May 31, 2017, the Embassy of Romania in Washington announced that on June 9, 2017, “President Donald J. Trump will host the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, at the White House for a working visit. President Trump looks forward to discussing ways to deepen ties between the United States and Romania and strengthen the strategic partnership.”

On June 9, 2017, after face-to-face talks in the Oval Office, the two leaders held a joint press conference. It was the first press conference of the President of Romania in the White House after the revolution.

Romania appears in the White House for Sale report, along with a smaller group of countries, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Namibia and Costa Rica, that have paid to stay at Trump hotels, but the amount is not specified.

“Due to the lack of relevant information, this report cannot determine the purposes and amounts spent by these countries on Trump properties during President Trump’s tenure,” the report said.

Viorika Densila, who stayed at Trump’s hotel

Although not specified in the report, former Prime Minister Viorika Dencila was accommodated during her 2019 visit to Washington at President Donald Trump’s hotel, the first foreign head of government known to have booked a room there at the time. over the past year, according to WNYC, New York City’s public radio station.

Viorica Dencila participated in the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, and the stay of the Romanian Prime Minister at the Trump International Hotel “serves as the latest proof that the Trump Organization continues to conduct business from foreign official people,” the American press notes

“Such payments may violate constitutional anti-corruption provisions that prohibit the president from accepting gifts or ’emoluments’ from foreign governments,” American journalists wrote in 2019.

American journalists also reported that two key allies of Donald Trump “courted” the Romanian government after Trump’s election. One of them is Rudolph Giuliani, the president’s lawyer in the case of special counsel Robert Mueller. In August 2018, Giuliani sent a letter to the president. Romania, in which he expressed his “concern about the continuous degradation of the rule of law in Romania.”

Another associate of Trump, Elliot Broidy, also allegedly did business in Romania – The New York Times wrote that Circinus, Broidy’s security firm, tried to enter into contracts with the Romanian government. American journalists of the radio station also write that in January 2017, the leader of the party to which Denchile belongs, Liviu Dragnia, was Broidy’s guest at Trump’s inauguration event at the Trump International Hotel.

American journalists also noted that Viorica Dencila is an ally of Dragni, who “was targeted by Romanian prosecutors.”

The “White House for Sale” scandal.

Former Republican President Donald Trump’s fortune grew by $7.8 million from 20 countries, including China and Saudi Arabia, while he was in the White House, violating the US Constitution, Democrats charged Thursday.

A year ago, the Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives, although a parliamentary committee investigated possible violations of the constitutional article that prohibits any official, minister or president from receiving “foreign inducements” – gifts or money – from other governments without the consent of Congress.

Officials from 20 countries — China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Democratic Republic of Congo — paid rent in 2017 and 2018, according to a report titled “White House for Sale,” approved by the Democratic minority on the committee and published by the Washington Post. fees and bills for four properties of 500 organizations and companies owned by Donald Trump and his family group, the Trump Organization.

“As president, Donald Trump accepted more than $7.8 million in payments from foreign countries and their leaders, including some of the most despicable regimes on the planet,” the report said, accusing the former president (2017-2021) of saw “some of that money pass through (his) hands.”

The four targets are offices and apartments in Trump Tower, the iconic skyscraper on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, as well as hotels and apartments in New York, Washington and Las Vegas.

China’s state-owned bank ICBC, for example, leased offices in Trump Tower, and Beijing’s total spending on the former head of state’s real estate was $5.5 million, according to the report.

“Former President Trump violated the Constitution when his companies accepted these contracts without the consent of Congress,” Democrats condemned.

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

According to polls, the 77-year-old businessman is the favorite in the Republican primaries for the US presidential election, which will begin on January 15.

Trump, who faces four criminal charges, faces several lawsuits this year. He and his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, are now facing charges of financial fraud in a New York civil court.