Buy American? Trump makes over $1 million from store that sells products with foreign, unknown origins

  • Date: 08-Aug-2020
  • Source: CNBC
  • Sector:Retail
  • Country:Oman
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Buy American? Trump makes over $1 million from store that sells products with foreign, unknown origins

President Donald Trump has made close to $1.5 million in income over the past three years from an online retail store that is owned by the company he founded, according to financial disclosure records reviewed by CNBC. While dozens of the Trump-branded products sold by the store are listed as having been made in the United States, a sizable chunk are made in foreign countries or are from an unknown origin – which would appear to run contrary to the president's "buy American" agenda.As of Friday, there are currently over 100 products under the "Made in America" collection on the online Trump Store, where they are marked as either "Made in America" or "Made in the USA," according to a CNBC review. Yet, at least another 180 items that CNBC reviewed were