Trump spent $20,000 earmarked for charity on a portrait of himself.

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The Donald J. Trump Foundation is not like other charities. An investigation of the foundation — including examinations of 17 years of tax filings and interviews with more than 200 individuals or groups listed as donors or beneficiaries — found that it collects and spends money in a very unusual manner.

For one thing, nearly all of its money comes from people other than Trump. In tax records, the last gift from Trump was in 2008. Since then, all of the donations have been other people’s money — an arrangement that experts say is almost unheard of for a family foundation.

Trump then takes that money and generally does with it as he pleases. 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.


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
(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)


HUGE Surprise :laugh:

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See any Corruption here ... ? :huh:

[Bo-4]

Yep, Vince and Linda McMahon flushed 5 million down the crapper while Trump hasn't contributed to his own foundation since 2008.

In fact, this WaPo reporter has found less than $10,000 in charity dollars given by Trump himself in past ten years.

Also likely that his political donations have illegally come out of foundation monies (as with the one to the Bleach Blonde Bimbo Bondi down in Florida)

This is one of many reasons we'll never see his taxes.

1) He gives little to nothing to charity
2) He's actually worth a couple hundred mil (not ten billion) - and that's being generous
3) He doesn't pay taxes
4) He's indebted to Putin up the yang

We get the leaders we deserve, but hopefully we're not SO deserving of a lump of coal this holiday season that we end up with Trump.

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Trump campaign manager comes unglued when CNN asks for proof of charity claimsTrump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway lashed out at CNN host Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday and accused the media of “badgering” Donald Trump because he would not provide evidence of his charitable donations.

During an interview with Conway on CNN’s New Day, Camerota noted that Trump had refused to release his tax returns because he was being audited, and asked the campaign manager if she would provide a letter from the IRS to prove he was under audit.

“I don’t know,” Conway shrugged. “Why? Are you calling him a liar?”

“And we’re taking Hillary Clinton’s word for she was ‘overheated’,” she added. “I mean, seriously, we’re running against a Clinton and we’re going to challenge someone’s veracity?”


https://youtu.be/64YtZ-ajqBM

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/this-is-badgering-trump-campaign-manager-comes-unglued-when-cnn-asks-for-proof-of-charity-claims/

[Bo-4]

LoL - she's probably the brightest of the Trumpkin bunch but she sure sucked in that segment.

Damn Kellyanne .. a little chippy girl! :D

Enough excuses - only 2008 forward are under audit.

So give us 2000-2007!