WASHINGTON >> House Democrats on Friday accused former President Donald Trump of accepting “hundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments” through the Trump International Hotel in 2017 and 2018, moving weeks before the election to remind voters of the ethical issues raised by his refusal to divest from his businesses while in office.

The 58-page report from Democrats on the Oversight Committee includes their final findings in a yearslong investigation digging into the Trump Organization’s management of the hotel. It accuses Trump of ripping off the Secret Service by charging the agency exorbitant rates and of inappropriately accepting payments from clients who worked for state governments or were seeking appointments and pardons from him.

“Mr. Trump has made clear that he will not only refuse to divest from his businesses in a possible future presidency, but he will seek to multiply opportunities to commodify the Oval Office for his personal enrichment by turning thousands of civil service jobs into patronage positions — all with the attendant payoff possibilities from supplicant job seekers and the prospective blessing of his handpicked Supreme Court justices,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee.

House Republicans dismissed the report as old news and accused Democrats of hypocrisy for investigating Trump but not members of President Joe Biden’s family, including his son Hunter.

“Unlike the Bidens, the Trumps actually have businesses and made money from the services they provided,” said Jessica Collins, a spokesperson for the Republican-led House Oversight Committee. “Today’s report is more recycled garbage from the Democrats’ fruitless and close to a decade-long investigation of President Trump.”

The committee has already documented how officials from other countries spent lavishly at Trump’s hotel in Washington while he was president and how the Secret Service was charged hefty prices for rooms.

Eric Trump, the former president’s son, has repeatedly claimed the organization charged the Secret Service a discounted rate. He has also said that any profit the company earned on the hotel stays from foreign officials was returned to the federal government through a voluntary annual payment to the Treasury Department. The Trump Organization has also said it did not have the ability to stop anyone from booking through third parties at the hotel.

“This is just another desperate attempt by House Democrats to rehash an old unsubstantiated story just two weeks before the upcoming presidential election in a last-minute effort to gain ground in the polls,” said Kimberly Benza, a spokesperson for the Trump Organization.