Trump Confesses He Took Payments From Foreign Governments While In Office

Even though the Fox town hall in Iowa meant to counter-program the equally ridiculous CNN Republican presidential debate between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis was nothing but the moderators lobbing one softball after another to Trump, it still turned out to be a complete debacle in more ways than one.

The Biden team is going to be playing Trump's comments taking credit for overturning Roe in a loop from now until the election, and in addition to that, Trump also admitted to violating the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, and told Fox's Bret Baier that it was perfectly all right since he was "doing services" for them. The only people he was supposed to "serve" at that time were Americans. Not foreign governments.

Former President Donald Trump defended his businesses accepting payments from foreign governments during a Fox News town hall on Wednesday. The comments came in response to a Jan. 4 report from House Oversight Committee Democrats finding that the former president had received at least $7.8 million in payments from foreign governments, including China and Saudi Arabia, and their controlled entities while in office.

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