There were five phantom donations in the files of Donald Trump’s foundation. Here’s what we know [View all]
Source: Washington Post
By David A. Fahrenthold,
September 12, 2016,
Yet again, devastating new investigations reveal that the self-declared “philanthropist” Donald Trump is in fact nothing of the sort. The Washington Post’s inquiry into the practices of the Trump Foundation reveal that for years, Donald Trump has been accepting the charitable donations of others and taking the credit for it, while spending the money on outrageous personal expenses and even personally profiting from their generosity.
The Charles Evans Foundation in New Jersey, for instance, donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation, which then donated the money to the Palm Beach Police Foundation in 2010. Trump was awarded the Palm Tree award for “his” generosity, which he accepted in at an opulent party held at his own Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida – and made money off of, since the police department paid to rent the room. It’s “unclear” how much Trump made off that particular event, but in 2014, tax returns show the police department paid over $276,463 to rent the place for another event, which in all likelihood came from the taxpayers.
Trump’s last gift to his own charity foundation was in 2008 – all the rest of the money comes from other sources, which Trump then uses to give to other charities, creating the impression that he is a generous man. Sometimes, however, Trump has straight-up used donation money to buy himself personal gifts, the most flagrant of which was reportedly a $20,000 six-foot painting of himself. The Washington Post contacted over 250 charities in attempts to track down Trump’s “donations” – but were largely unsuccessful. Many of the charities that Trump told the IRS he had donated to had no idea that he had promised them money.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/12/there-were-five-phantom-donations-in-the-files-of-donald-trumps-foundation-heres-what-we-know/
Today's story was published about an hour and 15 minutes ago..(12:38 ET) ..I sure hope this gets national coverage..but I doubt it
.Reminds me...of the drip, drip, drip of Woodard and Bernstein as the truth came out about Watergate.
Little by little, and then it became a flood of info..somewhere from within. I wonder???
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