Democrats query millions Trump paid to Equatorial Guinea to accept deportees

The U.S. government made a $7.5 million payment to the government of Equatorial Guinea as it seeks to deport people to the West African country and draws closer to heavily prosecuted leaders, according to the top Democratic senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said in a letter sent Monday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obtained by The Associated Press that “this highly unusual payment…