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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (930230)	4/12/2016 11:22:38 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1575189

"make us great again! You believe him?" Rarely. He couldn't even make Trump Airlines and Trump Steaks great. How's he gonna do it with the country? = Charity, Donald Trump-Style Trump’s supporters have often talked about his kind acts toward people less fortunate than himself, and he has described himself in the past as an “ardent philanthropist.” Last year, after he launched his Presidential campaign, he claimed to have made charitable donations worth more than a hundred million dollars over the past five years. But in a report published in August, headlined “Proof of Trump’s charity giving elusive,” Horwitz wrote that the Trump campaign “has provided little documentation for most of these contributions, and tax filings of the Donald J. Trump foundation show Trump has made no charitable contributions to his own namesake nonprofit since 2008.” Horwitz reported that Trump’s charitable foundation had given some money to worthy causes: from 2011 to 2013, the most recent year that the foundation’s finances were available, the amount was just over three and a half million dollars. But where did this money come from? Mainly from businesses that had done business with Trump, such as NBCUniversal and the World Wrestling Entertainment. When Horwitz pressed the Trump campaign for details of the candidate’s own contributions, he wrote, a spokeswoman “provided a partial list of donations that appeared to correspond with the foundation’s gifts—indicating that Trump may be counting other people’s charitable giving as his own.” Much of the rest of the hundred million dollars that Trump claimed to have donated, Horwitz revealed, was in the form of questionable easements on his business properties. For example, in 2014, Trump granted a conservation easement for a driving range at one of his golf courses, in Los Angeles, pledging not to build houses on the property. Such deals are controversial. They can generate federal tax write-offs for the firms that make them, Horwitz reported. He also cited city-planning documents indicating that Trump didn’t have serious plans to build on the property to begin with. newyorker.com