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Trump’s Tacky Gold Gift Explodes Into ‘Cartoonish Bribe’ Scandal

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Democrats have ripped a jewelry firm, saying their gift to President Donald Trump could have amounted to a “cartoonish bribe.” Trump was handed a “watch-sized” 18-karat gold ring bejeweled with 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds, and six rubies, completed with the numbers 45 and 47, by the Belgian diamond industry’s primary lobbying organization to honor his two terms in office. The gift, reported by the Associated Press to be worth between $25,000 and…
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