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Offline thatcher

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Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« on: June 28, 2016, 01:05:27 pm »
Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.

In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans’ families.

Before that, however, when was the last time that Trump gave any of his own money to a charity?

If Trump stands by his promises, such donations should be occurring all the time. In the past 15 years, Trump has promised to donate earnings from a wide variety of his money-making enterprises: “The Apprentice.” Trump Vodka. Trump University. A book. Another book. If he honored all those pledges, Trump’s gifts to charity would have topped $8.5 million.

But in that time, public records show, Trump donated about $2.8 million — less than a third of the pledged figure — through a foundation set up to give his money away. And there is no evidence that Trump has given to his foundation lately: The last record of any gift from him to his foundation was in 2008.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump often reminds audiences of his charitable donations, but recent Washington Post analysis calls into question whether he's given any personal gifts of his own money in the past five years. (Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post)

Trump and his staff are adamant that he has given away millions privately, off the foundation’s books. Trump won’t release his tax returns, which would confirm such gifts, and his staff won’t supply details. “There’s no way for you to know or understand,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told BuzzFeed recently.

Hicks did not respond to repeated questions about Trump’s charity from The Washington Post, which has had its press credentials banned from Trump’s public events.

Read more:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2016, 01:36:51 pm »
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In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans’ families.

Before that, however, when was the last time that Trump gave any of his own money to a charity?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?tid=sm_fb


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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2016, 01:54:58 pm »
Maybe the media would stop with these charity stories if Trump would just admit he's flat cash broke.  Which, apparently, he is.
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2016, 02:02:11 pm »
I've got some free rounds of golf I can donate to your charity!

What? That doesn't feed hungry children? Well... it'll make the overpaid administrators of your charity happy!
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2016, 02:05:30 pm »
The eye opener for me was the $250k given to the Clinton foundation over the same period $50k (max) was given to veterans groups.

For all of his talk about loving the vets.
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2016, 03:31:11 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on June 28, 2016, 02:05:30 pm
The eye opener for me was the $250k given to the Clinton foundation over the same period $50k (max) was given to veterans groups.

For all of his talk about loving the vets.

That was business!  How do you expect him to keep all his thousands of workers employed if he doesn't pay off his friends?
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2016, 03:38:56 pm »
 :silly:

I thought there was gonna be something to this headline. Turns out it's another AbaraXas/Washington Post hit piece, inflated yet completely void of truth.
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2016, 03:41:49 pm »
Quote from: aligncare on June 28, 2016, 03:38:56 pm
:silly:

I thought there was gonna be something to this headline. Turns out it's another AbaraXas/Washington Post hit piece, inflated yet completely void of truth.

What is completely void of the truth are Trump's claims.
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2016, 06:08:02 pm »
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html

By David A. Fahrenthold


In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans’ families.

Before that, however, when was the last time that Trump had given any of his own money to a charity?

If Trump stands by his promises, such donations should be occurring all the time. In the 15 years prior to the veterans donation, Trump promised to donate earnings from a wide variety of his moneymaking enterprises: “The Apprentice.” Trump Vodka. Trump University. A book. Another book. If he had honored all those pledges, Trump’s gifts to charity would have topped $8.5 million.

But in the 15 years prior to the veterans’ gift, public records show that Trump donated about $2.8 million through a foundation set up to give his money away — less than a third of the pledged amount — and nothing since 2009. Records show Trump has given nothing to his foundation since 2008.

Trump and his staff are adamant that he has given away millions privately, off the foundation’s books. Trump won’t release his tax returns, which would confirm such gifts, and his staff won’t supply details. “There’s no way for you to know or understand,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told BuzzFeed recently.

Hicks did not respond to repeated questions about Trump’s charity from The Washington Post. Trump earlier this month revoked The Post’s press credentials to cover his events.

In recent weeks, The Post tried to answer the question by digging up records going back to the late 1980s and canvassing a wide swath of nonprofits with some connection to Trump.

That research showed that Trump has a long-standing habit of promising to give to charity. But Trump’s follow-through on those promises was middling — even at the beginning, in his early days as a national celebrity.

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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2016, 06:13:22 pm »
NOTE: This is from the newspaper that will devote the full time resources of 20 reporters to dig into Trump's past.

Does anybody know how many of their  reporters are researching Hillary  full time at all?
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2016, 07:48:16 pm »
Quote from: aligncare on June 28, 2016, 03:38:56 pm
:silly:

I thought there was gonna be something to this headline. Turns out it's another AbaraXas/Washington Post hit piece, inflated yet completely void of truth.


The claims seem pretty clear and valid.  Do you have any substantive rebuttal, with evidence?

@aligncare
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2016, 08:30:49 pm »
Much of the rest went to charities tied to Trump’s life: ...a foundation for indigent real estate brokers.

AKA the Trump University Alumni Association.
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2016, 08:39:34 pm »
Mommy was Scottish, but Donny has turned out to be welsh...
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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2016, 09:30:21 pm »
Quote from: aligncare on June 28, 2016, 03:38:56 pm
:silly:

I thought there was gonna be something to this headline. Turns out it's another AbaraXas/Washington Post hit piece, inflated yet completely void of truth.

@aligncare

..... a claim which you fully substantiated with   **** POOF ***** nothing, of course.

To hear Align or Trump speak is to hear the voice of god. /s

Just accept it, people, or ya all can be ** ZOT ** to hell. 


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Re: Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2016, 09:34:01 pm »
Quote from: Suppressed on June 28, 2016, 07:48:16 pm

The claims seem pretty clear and valid.  Do you have any substantive rebuttal, with evidence?


Don't wait up for a response.   Mechanicos, Align, and a bunch of the other Trumpkins think that ad hominem means "Truth from god".

They NEVER respond with substantiation or fact.  They respond with:

*** POOF ****  (nothing)
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