Update: Trump faces growing scrutiny over ‘profoundly concerning’ cash gifts for aides including Natalie Harp

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The payments amounted to 30% of each aides’ $150,000 annual salary Donald Trump may have committed “serious” ethical violations by giving three officials including his close personal aide Natalie Harp cash gifts of $45,000 each, as reported by a former White House “ethics czar”, as a watchdog group called for an investigation. The report also notes that The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the US Office of Government Ethics over the US president’s handouts to a handful of staff, arguing that an investigation is “clearly warranted”.

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