David Fahrenthold @Fahrenthold
That's right: in 2009, @realDonaldTrump used $5K from his foundation to pay the winner of "Trump pays your bills" contest on TV show Extra. https://twitter.com/countingcharity/status/783252342418341888 …
5:43 AM - 4 Oct 2016
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...ggest.html

Quote:“It was a quiet donation that came with a simple cover letter,” Smith said. It read: “Great meeting with you and your wife in my office,” dated May 6, 2011. Enclosed was a check for $10,000 from the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

That check is one of at least several donations to suggest Trump used his private foundation, funded by outside donors, to launch and fuel his political ambitions. Such contributions, if they were made solely for Trump’s benefit, could violate federal self-dealing laws for private foundations.

From 2011 through 2014, Trump harnessed his eponymous foundation to send at least $286,000 to influential conservative or policy groups, a RealClearPolitics review of the foundation’s tax filings found. In many cases, this flow of money corresponded to prime speaking slots or endorsements that aided Trump as he sought to recast himself as a plausible Republican candidate for president.

The donations to groups that granted Trump plum speaking slots or otherwise promoted his political aspirations also might run afoul of self-dealing rules for private foundations, which prohibit a foundation’s leadership from using donor money for its own gain.

Those donations paid for connections, turned Trump skeptics into friends, and bought Trump’s way onto the stage at important Republican events. Since Trump hasn’t made a donation to his foundation since 2008, he was using other people’s money to pay his way onto the political stage and lay the groundwork for his 2016 run. Or as Giuliani and Christie call it, GENIUS!

I heard this morning that his charity was never licensed and he has been informed to terminate the charity or be reprimanded.

You won't get anywhere with this thread. At best, it's trying to draw a moral equivalence between his sh!tty charity vs the Clinton Foundation behemoth. Good or bad, you're going to get responses calling the Clinton Foundation a sewer. Interestingly enough, I looked up the Clinton Foundation on the Charity Watch site, and they do pretty damn good as a charity. https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and...dation/478

ETA, there are no ratings on the Trump Foundation. Since it's a private group, they don't share info. https://www.charitywatch.org/charitywatc...dation-/65

(10-04-2016 12:56 PM)miko33 Wrote:  You won't get anywhere with this thread. At best, it's trying to draw a moral equivalence between his sh!tty charity vs the Clinton Foundation behemoth. Good or bad, you're going to get responses calling the Clinton Foundation a sewer. Interestingly enough, I looked up the Clinton Foundation on the Charity Watch site, and they do pretty damn good as a charity. https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and...dation/478

I wonder. What does Charity watch say about Trump's charity?

Lol of course the cons are quiet in this thread.