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Golf clubs and a $24K dagger: Trump failed to report dozens of foreign gifts

Donald Trump swings a golf club.
A set of golf clubs from the prime minister of Japan are among the gifts given to Donald Trump’s White House that remain unaccounted for. Photograph: Michele Eve Sandberg/REX/Shutterstock

Donald Trump’s White House failed to report more than 100 gifts from foreign nations worth more than a quarter-million dollars, according to a US government report, and several of those gifts – including a lifesize painting of Trump given by the president of El Salvador and golf clubs from the prime minister of Japan – are still unaccounted for.

The revelations came as part of a report on Friday from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The report details numerous unreported items, among them 16 gifts from Saudi Arabia worth more than $45,000 in all, including a dagger valued at up to $24,000, and 17 presents from India that include expensive cufflinks, a vase and a $4,600 model of the Taj Mahal.

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