# Two more Trump scandals -- there are so many now I can't keep count **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 4, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-more-trump-scandals-there-are-so-many-now-i-cant-keep-count/767668 "2016-10-04T23:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-more-trump-scandals-there-are-so-many-now-i-cant-keep-count/767668/1 "2016-10-04T23:17:46Z")
I don’t know if either of these have already been posted – I can’t possibly keep up with the entire Elections board. Apologies if this is old news. 1. [The Trump Organization did business with an Iranian bank linked to terrorism.](https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/09/trumps-organization-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terrorism) > [@](#): > > U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump. > > The Trump Organization’s dealings with the Iranian bank shed more light on Trump’s wide-ranging business interests, which sometimes stand at odds with his blunt declarations on the campaign trail. Trump has denounced Iran as a “big enemy,” blasted Hillary Clinton for not taking a harder line against the Iranian regime and charged that donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation amounted to evidence of corruption. His five-year stint as Bank Melli’s landlord provides an example of the Trump Organization itself doing business with a government hostile to the United States. > > “It’s a pretty hypocritical position to take,” said Richard Nephew, who served from 2013 to 2015 as principal deputy coordinator of sanctions policy at the U.S. State Department and spent nearly a decade working on Iran sanctions in the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. “It suggests that his principles are pretty flexible when it comes to him getting paid.” 1. [Trump may have illegally used Foundation money to promote his political aspirations](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/04/trump_used_foundation_funds_for_2016_run_filings_suggest.html) > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-more-trump-scandals-there-are-so-many-now-i-cant-keep-count/767668/2 "2016-10-04T23:30:38Z")
Two of Trumps projects [bought steel and aluminum](http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717)from China, costing the US industries hundreds of jobs. > [@](#): > > A Newsweek investigation has found that in at least two of Trump’s last three construction projects, Trump opted to purchase his steel and aluminum from Chinese manufacturers rather than United States corporations based in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-more-trump-scandals-there-are-so-many-now-i-cant-keep-count/767668/3 "2016-10-04T23:40:28Z")
> [@Anny\_Middon](#): > > 1. [The Trump Organization did business with an Iranian bank linked to terrorism.](https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/09/trumps-organization-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terrorism) Trump sycophant “If it’s legal then it was just smart business. Trump is a genius!”