One of the Candidates Has a Scandalicious Family Charity ...

... but, it ain't Hillary!

The lowlights ...

In many cases, he passes it on to other charities, which often are under the impression that it is Trump’s own money.

In two cases, he has used money from his charity to buy himself a gift. In one of those cases — not previously reported — Trump spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself.

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If Trump has kept it and put it on display in his office or somewhere else that’s self-dealing. The IRS says you’re not allowed to do that. If he had an office for the Trump Foundation, he could put it there, but there is no Trump Foundation office. It doesn’t have any staff or any buildings or anything. In order to comply with the law, he has to use the helmet for charitable purposes. He has to give it to a charity. The question is what became of it. We’ve got no answers from Trump about it. Eric Trump said he thought his father had just given it to a random child which is also not allowed by the IRS.

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Trump’s foundation appears to have repeatedly broken IRS rules, which require nonprofit groups to file accurate paperwork. In five cases, the Trump Foundation told the IRS that it had given a gift to a charity whose leaders told The Post that they had never received it. In two other cases, companies listed as donors to the Trump Foundation told The Post that those listings were incorrect.

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This was one of the gifts that Trump promised on air during a taping of “The Celebrity Apprentice.” During an episode in 2012, contestant Dayana Mendoza — a former Miss Universe — was there when Trump made a sweeping promise. “I’m gonna give $10,000 each to each one of you, everybody sitting at this table, for your charity,” he said.

Five other contestants were at the table. The Trump Foundation sent $10,000 to each of their charities. This was typical for the show: Although Trump often made seemingly heartfelt promises to donate his own money, it seems that he never did so. Instead, the donations were made by a production company, or by Trump’s foundation — by then, filled with other people’s money.

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This January, the phone rang at a tiny charity in White River Junction, Vt., called Friends of Veterans. This was just after Trump had held a televised fundraiser for veterans in Iowa, raising more than $5 million.

The man on the phone was a Trump staffer who was selecting charities that would receive the newly raised money. He said the Vermont group was already on Trump’s list, because the Trump Foundation had given it $1,000 in 2013.

“I don’t remember a donation from the Trump Foundation,” said Larry Daigle, the group’s president, who was a helicopter gunner with the Army during the Vietnam War. “The guy seemed pretty surprised about this.”

The man went away from the phone. He came back.

Was Daigle sure? He was.

The man thanked him. He hung up. Daigle waited — hopes raised — for the Trump people to call back.

“Oh, my God, do you know how many homeless veterans I could help?” Daigle told The Post this spring, while he was waiting.

Trump gave away the rest of the veterans money in late May.

Daigle’s group received none of it.

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Trump for Prison 2016!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-retooled-his-charity-to-spend-other-peoples-money/2016/09/10/da8cce64-75df-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpfoundation607pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Maybe Trump and Hillary can share a cell (the Hell Cell?), they both belong in one.

Both are extraordinary liars, constantly engage in deception and misinformation, and prefer to hide their actions instead of being open about their activities.

Hillary has broken no laws. Donald Trump and the Florida AG are being targeted by the three biggest Newspapers in Florida in Miami, Orlando, and Tampa to have the Justice Department indict on a clear bribery case where the Florida AG solicited a bribe to not further investigate Trump University. I hate any type of this nonsense during the election cycle because it destroys our politics, but as soon as the election is over......prosecute.

Sal wrote:Responding to false equivalencies gets so tiresome after a while.

[sigh]

Clinton is a politician with over three decades of public service under her belt.  She has made many crucial decisions in the national interest over the years - some good, some bad.  The Clinton Foundation is a influential charitable organization that performs countless good works and has saved the lives of thousands.

Trump is a conman who is actively stirring up white nationalism and armed sedition.

False equivalencies???? Not so much. HRC accrued 200M+ as a "public servant"? What a crock of shit. She is anything but a "public servant", she is a "Hillary Servant" and nothing more.

I have no issue at all with the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, and their other programs. I do feel that major donors contribute more for access or the potential for access than because of the kindness buried deep in their cold little political and business hearts. But whatever the donors motivations the programs do good works.

Quit kidding yourself, HRC doesn't care about you, anyone else, or this country - it's all about her.

Trump is just a rich lunatic.

Hillary is a good person. Trump is an evil person. It does not get any simpler than what they have done with their lives.......one has helped people, and one has taken his entire life.

Sos Kerry funneling millions from dos into his daughters charity? Oh... candidate... I tend to see them all for what they do.