根据政府监督组织华盛顿道德与责任公民组织的一份新报告，总统唐纳德特朗普已经花了将近三分之一的总统职位，以纳税人的费用访问他的商业地产。
由于特朗普决定在上任后不剥离其全球商业帝国的所有权，因此CREW发现了2,300多起利益冲突。该小组使用社交媒体，新闻报道，信息自由法案回复和其他信息来源来统计这些情况。该非营利组织补充说，可能存在的利益冲突多于他们能够识别的利益冲突。
“特朗普组织与白宫之间的这种腐败关系让美国公众不知道总统的决定和政策是否符合国家的最佳利益，也符合总统自身利益的最佳利益，”Noah Bookbinder CREW执行董事告诉新闻周刊。
根据监管机构的说法，自2017年就职以来，特朗普已经以纳税人的费用访问了他的房产362次。到2019年为止，总统已经为他的商业地产进行了81次旅行。
报告称，特朗普总统在特朗普品牌的财产账户中占据了他担任总统几乎三分之一的天数。
CREW还发现，111名外国官员已经对特朗普的房产进行了130多次旅行。这些访问使人们对外国政府在与特朗普组织有关的企业和财产上花了多少钱感到惊讶。
“不仅特朗普总统继续利用总统职位来努力使自己充实，他还让外国政府和特殊利益集团有机会通过光顾他的企业来购买他的政府，”Bookbinder说。
在过去两年半的时间里，特朗普组织的财产从政治团体中攫取了近600万美元。到目前为止，在2019年，政治组织通过在特朗普物业举办活动花了超过100万美元。根据CREW的说法，在特朗普竞选总统之前，他的商业帝国在一年内从未从政治团体中赚取超过10万美元。
特朗普面临多项指控违反“宪法”中的薪酬条款，将官方职责与特朗普组织混为一谈。
6月，华盛顿邮报的一份报告发现，他的私营企业从共和党人和各联邦机构获得了160万美元。该帖子推测，钱特朗普的量，由于访问，并在他的企业性质由竞选很可能远远超过1.6亿$。但官方政府支出记录仅在2017年上半年提供。
据报道，总统正在考虑让特朗普国家党在明年举办G7峰会。道德专家批评此举，称这只是特朗普无视将业务与总统职位混为一谈的最新例证。
“没有其他总统在服务期间保留了大规模全球业务的所有权，因此这位总统的自我充实和利益冲突代表了对民主的独特和前所未有的侮辱，”Bookbinder说。
DONALD TRUMP HAS SPENT NEARLY A THIRD OF HIS PRESIDENCY VISITING HIS BUSINESS PROPERTIES AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE: REPORT
President Donald Trump has spent nearly a third of his presidency visiting his business properties at taxpayer expense, according to a new report by the government watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington.
CREW has found over 2,300 conflicts of interest resulting from Trump's decision not to divest ownership of his global business empire upon entering office. The group used social media, news reports, Freedom of Information Act responses and other sources of information to tally these instances. The nonprofit added that there are likely more conflicts of interest than the ones they have been able to identify.
"This corrupt relationship between the Trump Organization and the White House leaves the American public in the dark about whether presidential decisions and policy are being made in the best interest of the country or in the best interest of the president's own bottom line," Noah Bookbinder, CREW's executive director, told Newsweek.
According to the watchdog, Trump has visited his properties 362 times at taxpayer expense since his inauguration in 2017. So far in 2019, the president has made 81 trips to his business properties.
"The number of days where President Trump has spent time at a Trump-branded property account for almost a third of the days he's been president," the report said.
CREW also found that 111 foreign officials have made over 130 trips to Trump properties. The visits raise eyebrows as to how much money foreign governments have spent at businesses and properties related to the Trump Organization.
"Not only has President Trump continued to use the presidency to try to enrich himself, he has also granted foreign governments and special interests the opportunity to purchase access to his administration by patronizing his businesses," Bookbinder said.
Over the past two and a half years, Trump Organization properties have raked in nearly $6 million from political groups. So far in 2019, political organizations have spent over $1 million by holding events at Trump properties. Before Trump ran for president, his business empire never made more than $100,000 from political groups in a year, according to CREW.
Trump has faced multiple accusations of violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution for mixing official duties with the Trump Organization.
In June, a Washington Post report found that his private businesses received $1.6 million from Republicans and various federal agencies. The Post surmised that the amount of money Trump has made due to visiting and campaigning at his business properties is likely much more than $1.6 million. But official government spending records are only available through the first half of 2017.
It has also been reported that the president is considering the Trump National Doral to host the G7 summit next year. Ethics experts criticized the move, saying it was just the latest example of Trump's disregard for mixing business with the presidency.
"No other president has retained ownership of a massive global business while serving, so this president's self-enrichment and conflicts of interest represent a unique and unprecedented affront to the democracy," Bookbinder said.
