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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo - Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems
Can you imagine if Republicans had caught the Clinton Foundation red handed using foundation money to pay for Bill and Hillary's personal legal expenses?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-used-258000-from-his-charity-to-settle-legal-problems/2016/09/20/adc88f9c-7d11-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?utm_term=.68b84f7b216d
Donald Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaires for-profit businesses, according to interviews and a review of legal documents.
Those cases, which together used $258,000 from Trumps charity, were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against self-dealing which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses.
In one case, from 2007, Trumps Mar-a-Lago Club faced $120,000 in unpaid fines from the town of Palm Beach, Fla., resulting from a dispute over the height of a flagpole.
In a settlement, Palm Beach agreed to waive those fines if Trumps club made a $100,000 donation to a specific charity for veterans. Instead, Trump sent a check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity funded almost entirely by other peoples money, according to tax records.
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WaPo - Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems (Original Post)
TomCADem
Jan 2018
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Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)1. How in the world is that allowed? n/t
Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)2. As usual, IOKIYAR. nt
madaboutharry
(40,247 posts)3. Trump is a con man.
This is how he operates. The Trump family is a gangster family. It is their culture. From evading taxes, to laundering money, to lying to and conning investors - the list is an endless cascade of dirty dealing.
There isn't a decent person there. Well, maybe Barron. Poor kid.