Trump FOUND the $3,755 driver given to him by Shinzo Abe and will give it to the National Archives

Donald Trump said Monday he had been able to locate that expensive golf club gifted to him by slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The $3,755 driver was on a list of gifts the former president received while in office, but was not found or reported, according to Democrats Oversight Committee.

Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday that the valuable unused driver was found along with several others at his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.

The driver and a giant Trump portrait of the president of El Salvador are among gifts totaling $300,000 that are either missing or unreported — this includes $48,000 from Saudi Arabia alone.

“I am pleased to report that after a search, we have found the gold (paint!) driver given to me by my friend and former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe,” Trump wrote. “It was in a locker, along with other clubs, at the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach County, Florida. It’s never been used.’

“On the basis that this club was given to me before I took office, I was told there are no reporting requirements, but I am forwarding it to NARA anyway,” he continued. ‘My company buys thousands of clubs every year!’

Trump’s transparency comes when he is put under a microscope regarding material from his time as president.

Last year, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to recover classified documents the former president had taken from Washington when he left the White House in 2021.

In the following months, secretly marked materials were also found in the homes of former Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden – further scrutinizing executive document retention requirements.

Government rules also require officials to report gifts — even of nominal value — to the State Department, which retains and records them.

The Trump White House “has not reported more than 100 foreign gifts given to the president and the First Family that were above the reporting threshold, including some gifts worth thousands of dollars,” the Democratic report, which was drafted by the Oversight Committee over the course of a year when Rep. Jamie Raskin was the chairman.

The commission discovered 16 unreported gifts to the Trump family totaling more than $45,000, including three gifts to President Trump and one gift to the President and First Lady. The unreported gifts included a Saudi dagger worth up to $24,000 and two sets of swords worth a total of $8,800. Records from the General Services Administration (GSA) showed that Mr. Kushner purchased and held five Saudi gifts, including the dagger,” the report said.

The huge Trump portrait was presented as a gift from Salvadoran President Nayib. He forwarded it to Trump-appointed ambassador to the country, Ron Johnson, a veteran CIA officer, according to emails released by the commission.

He sent the image to an aide to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and wrote that it was “wrapped and ready to ship to President Trump.”

“I just need to know where to send it,” Johnson added.

One Trump aide asked for the best address for shipping, and another aide said it was “delivered to the WH!”

Kushner himself simply wrote, “Can we arrange this – very nice.”

An attached image shows the Salvadoran president giving a thumbs up next to a portrait of Trump starting at the knees. The president’s head is slightly higher than the president’s, making the portrait the size of a grown man.

According to the Democratic report, “There are no records of the disposition of the painting. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had no record of this painting, and GSA had no record of the purchase of this gift.”

But transitional documents “indicating that the director of correspondence of Donald J. Trump’s office certified “full compliance with the final disposition of gifts” in April 2021, records obtained by the commission suggest the portrait may have been moved to Florida as “property ‘. of the former president” in July 2021,” the report suggests.

The document also references “reports” of a $3,755 golf driver handed to Trump by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who died last year.

Federal Register listings showed zero foreign gifts reported for President Trump from Prime Minister Abe in 2017, 2018 or 2019, but internal White House records show Prime Minister Abe gave additional golf clubs to President Trump during visits to the Trump International Golf Club and Kasumigaseki Country Club in 2017 and 2018,” the staff reported, including a $460 putter and a #3,040 driver.

The Archive ‘has no record of these golf clubs and does not hold the golf clubs. GSA also has no record of the golf clubs purchased. The commission is still trying to determine the final destination of these gifts,” the report said.

But there may be errors. The report says the destination of a gift to Kushner from Egypt remains “unknown.”

A footnote refers to “a box decorated with silver patterns with an estimated value of $450 received from Kamal Abbas, General Coordinator of the Center for Trade Unions and Labor Service in 2018.”

But a former official pointed to a government document that says the box is in the Presidential Materials Division, with the name of the safe — 45 — and a box number.

It describes it as “personal equipment, a rectangular box with a hinged lid and a certificate stating that it is ‘pure silver’.” However, markings in Arabic indicate that it is 90% silver.

“The failure to disclose gifts from foreign governments was much broader than previously known and spanned the entire Trump administration,” the report said.

The total included gifts totaling $48,000 from Saudi Arabia. The gifts came from a range of powerful leaders and governments.

“The unreported foreign gifts include gifts from President Xi Jinping of China, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and other foreign government officials,” the report said.

It came during a week when Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer released bank records on a Hunter Biden associate, including a wire transfer that showed Beau Biden widow Hallie Biden was getting $35,000 in wire transfers around the time a Hunter associate was getting $3 million from a Chinese company.

Today’s preliminary findings again highlight the Trump administration’s brutal disregard for the rule of law and its systematic mishandling of large gifts from foreign governments, including many lavish personalized gifts that far exceed the legal limit in value but have never been reported. is done. missing today,” Raskin said.

Gifts not reported by Trump totaled $150,000, and gifts not reported by the first family and Trump totaled more than $250,000, according to the report.