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, according to a former White House “ethics czar”, as a watchdog group...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/trump-cash-gifts-aides-natalie-harp)