| | | OOPS! TRUMP “CHARITY” EXPOSED AS ELABORATE SCHEME TO MAKE GOLF DEBTS GO AWAY
New York prosecutors have accused the president and his kids of “persistently illegal conduct” related to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
BY BESS LEVIN
JUNE 14, 2018 5:02 PM
vanityfair.com
THE CORRUPT POS tRump SCUM SUCKING CRIMINAL A-HOLES
Who wouldn’t trust this group?
From CBS/Getty Images.
As the photos show, Donald Trump had the time of his life in Singapore this week, bonding with Kim Jong Un over inheriting their fathers’ businesses—real estate and murderous regimes, respectively—and praising the way the gulag-loving dictator runs his country. Unfortunately, like a girls trip one takes to get away from a stressful relationship or issues at work, the president’s problems were right there waiting for him when he got home. On Thursday, a day after news broke that his former lawyer Michael Cohen may turn on him, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued the president and all of his adult children for “persistently illegal conduct” related to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
According to the suit filed by Underwood, who took over the A.G.’s office after her predecessor, Eric Schneiderman, resigned over abuse allegations, the Trump Foundation “was little more than a checkbook for payments to not-for-profits from Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization.” Here’s a taste of the allegations regarding how the family charity misappropriated its funds:
$5,000 was used to advertise Trump Hotels;
$10,000 was spent on a portrait of the president, later found on display at the the sports bar at Trump’s Doral golf resort;
$100,000 was allegedly used to settle a legal dispute with the city of Palm Beach, which Trump resolved by contributing the amount to the Fisher House Foundation;
$258,000 was allegedly used to settle lawsuits against Trump and his businesses, including $158,000 paid to a man named Martin Greenberg, who sued the Trump National Golf Club after it failed to pay him a promised $1 million for scoring a hole-in-one at a charity golf tournament.
On that last point, the suit helpfully includes a large photocopy of a note, written in Trump’s signature style, explicitly directing his staff to use the charity’s money to fix his legal problem:
Adam Klasfeld
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· Jun 14, 2018
Replying to @KlasfeldReports
Trump spoke out against bar on using charities for political campaigns while using charities for his political campaign, the AG says. This footnote quotes Trump as saying "they're willing to take your tax exemption and tax status away from you if you talk."
Adam Klasfeld
?@KlasfeldReports
AG claims - with receipts - that Trump used foundation money to pay off the $100,000 settlement of a lawsuit.
The foundation wasn't involved in the lawsuit in any way, the AG say. pic.twitter.com/eAvBOzqwI9
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Underwood also charges that the foundation, whose board members include Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, violated campaign-finance laws by “illegally provid[ing] extensive support” to the then-candidate’s 2016 campaign, despite being explicitly prohibited from “participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of a candidate.” E-mails show campaign manager Corey Lewandowski dictating charitable expenditures which you’ll surely be shocked to hear appear dedicated to helping Trump get elected. (“Is there any way we can make some disbursements this week while in Iowa?” Lewandowski wrote to a staffer shortly before the Iowa caucuses.)
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Trump, naturally, has taken the entire ordeal in stride.
Donald J. Trump
?@realDonaldTrump
The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!...
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Donald J. Trump
?@realDonaldTrump
....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.
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Underwood who, by the by, is a career staffer who doesn’t plan to run for office, has asked that the president be forced to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties, and be barred from leading any New York nonprofit organizations for 10 years. She also wants each of the Trump kids banned from serving as directors of New York nonprofits for a year.
Amanda Miller, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, called the suit “politics at its very worst.” The Trump Foundation has not issued a comment, as it has no employees.
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