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The money, listed as “cash gift for the holidays,” was detailed in financial disclosure forms released by the administration.
The Washington Post is reporting that the president gave $45,000 cash gifts to executive assistant Natalie Harp and two other White House aides.
NYTimes – US The money, listed as “cash gift for the holidays,” was detailed in financial disclosure forms released by the administration.
NYTimes – US The money, listed as “cash gift for the holidays,” was detailed in financial disclosure forms released by the administration.
BBC News – World The White House has described the cash gifts to Harp and three others as personal - and legal.
Sky News – Front Page Donald Trump gave Christmas presents of large sums of cash to four White House aides, including Natalie Harp, new official financial disclosures revealed.
A White House spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday that Mr. Trump "has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit."
NYTimes – US The money, listed as “cash gift for the holidays,” was detailed in financial disclosure forms released by the administration.
The president’s substantial holiday gifts to four White House aides were made public via financial disclosures released by the administration Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration, including $45,000 to executive assistant Natalie Harp. Communications adviser Margo Martin and deputy director of Oval Office operations Ch…
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