It certainly is hard to keep up with the flood of discoveries and revelations about Trump and his foundation. As a grant writer who worked for dozens of legitimate charitable organizations over the past 38 years, I find this latest revelation rather delicious.
Trump Foundation lacks the certification required for charities that solicit money
This is pretty yuuuuge.
Sorry, if someone has already mentioned this.
It seems the purpose of this foundation is to accept money that was actually owed to Trump (and then give the “donor” a tax receipt), and then turn around and use foundation money to pay Trump’s legal bills and fines.
Now we find out that the foundation is not really legal anyway. Quelle surprise.
Well if they did jump through all the hoops required to make it legal, then it would have been audited and all of those dealings that you correctly call its main purpose would have been verboten. So the two necessarily go hand in hand.
The nice thing about these scandals is that it makes any criticism of the Clinton Foundation by Trump massively hypocritical.
It wasn’t already? Maybe upscale “massive” from “planetary” to " galactic".
If only the typical Trump voter cared. This won’t change one person’s vote.
Yeah, but the thought of him having to give all that money back is delicious!
Well, to be fair, it seems like Trump’s favorite charity is himself.
Please. This is the candidate who says “I’ll release my tax returns when I see a birth certificate” and then doesn’t. Now he says “I’ll release my tax returns when I see those emails/speeches” and somehow his supporters think that’s an equivalent, even though every other candidate has already released the tax return.
Trumps response to all of this will be something like “If there are problems in the Trump Foundation, just imagine how much worse the Clinton Foundation is. I’ll audit my foundation right after Hillary audits her foundation” which his supporters will eat up. The fact that Hillary has audited her foundation is practically an admission of guilt in their eyes. Her auditors must be covering something up, that’s it. We need the long form audit. Eight years from now, Trump will claim to have done us all a great service in making sure the Clinton Foundation was properly audited.
Yeah. Some of the money bought portraits of Trump which hang in his clubs, which is illegal also.
Please Og, let the October surprise be ten state AGs filing lawsuits against Trump and his properties. If any of this is criminal a Trump perp walk would be nice also.
This needs to be repeated constantly: Trump needs more than his hardcore base. His hardcore base won’t care if he sucker-punches an abbeyful of nuns, absolutely–but they’re not enough to win the election. He also needs some of the folks who are uncomfortable with him but want conservative Supreme Court justices, or who hate Clinton more than him, or who don’t like the idea of casting their first-ever vote for a Democrat.
The more this sort of stuff comes up, the more of those waverers will stay home, or vote for Johnson, or even vote for Clinton.
This election will be won at the margins.
How much more stuff. Cause this charity stuff alone seems like it would bring down an organized crime family, but the polls don’t move on it at all.
Trickle down scandal.
Wait – are the Trumps an organized crime family? I saw a movie once with a hothead who got his start in business from his father, and loved having people talk about the size of his penis, and thinks he knows more about the use of force than folks who served in uniform, and could easily be goaded into wild overreactions, and – hang on; is there a difference between Donald Trump and Sonny Corleone?
Be pretty funny if the guy won only to be brought up on RICO charges brought on by the publicity of the campaign.
That said, is there a potential RICO charge here?
Sonny actually did punch out people while Trump just says he’d like to.
I remember seeing something about it (might have been here), but I can’t figure out where. Can we get a lawyer in here please?
By my count we have about six admitted lawyers here, I think the rest pretend they are drummers and used car salesmen.
I think the Trumps are a dis-organized crime family.
His financials and companies are the reason I did not think mr. trump would allow his campaign to get this far. I reckoned on him dropping out when he would have to disclose his financials. That he couldn’t stand the scrutiny.
Now i’m figuring that his ego has over ridden any sense of self preservation, and that he believes that he can get away with anything. It would be lovely if this totally brought down his very gaudy little empire. After his older sons comments I’m not fashed if it brings them down as well.
People who play drums or traveling salesmen? Neither are positives, but the salesmen smell better.
You gotta know the territory!