Trump’s Charitable Donations Mostly Free Rounds of Golf, Other People’s Money

[thatcher]

Just like "financing his own campaign" with a loan that will be paid off by supporter donations --

Trump’s Charitable Donations Mostly Free Rounds of Golf, Other People’s Money

Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has prided himself in the more than $102 million he's reportedly given to charity in the past five years. "It's one of the things I most like doing and one of the great reasons to have made a lot of money," he told the Associated Press back in August.

But even in that August interview, something seemed off — the AP noted that "the Trump campaign did not respond to a request that it identify donations that Trump himself gave." Now, it appears the campaign had a very good reason to keep mum.   According to a Washington Post investigation into an exhaustive list of Trump's charitable donations — 4,844 contributions filling 93 pages — not a single donation was of Trump's own money.

Instead, most donations came from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which didn't receive a personal check from Trump between 2008 and 2014, according to public tax filings. Although Trump decides where the foundation's money goes, most of it comes from third-party donors.


Read more at:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/trump-charity-gifts-mostly-other-peoples-money.html#

[kevindavis007]

Basically another Clinton foundation (which he donated to)..

[sinkspur]

Did the vets' organizations ever get all that money that Trump raised in February?  Or is it still sitting in his "Foundation"?

[kevindavis007]

Did the vets' organizations ever get all that money that Trump raised in February?  Or is it still sitting in his "Foundation"?

I think they are still waiting..

[bolobaby]

Kind of like how he was "self-funding his campaign."

The guy is a walking, talking crock of...