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White House lawyer says Trump’s gold gifts look like a ‘bribe’

A former White House ethics adviser says gold gifted to Donald Trump during tariff negotiations gave “the appearance of a bribe.” Richard Painter, 64, who served as George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer, told the Daily Beast he believes lawmakers should be asking questions about the lavish gifts. The gold Rolex desk clock and a one-kilogram gold bar were given to Trump by a Swiss business consortium a week before he issued a favorable tariff cut…