PROOF THAT BILLIONAIRE DONALD TRUMP IS A LYING CHEAPSKATE

…Liar, Liar, Pants-on-Fire

 

The Washington Post once again shows the egg on Trump’s face.

 

How many people realize that after 2008, the “Donald J. Trump Foundation” stopped giving any of its own money to charities?

 

The money from the Donald J. Trump Foundation does not come from Trump himself. Tax records show that Trump hasn't donated any money to his foundation since 2008. Instead, he retooled his personal charity so that it only gives away other people's money that have contributed to his foundation.  But of course, Trump has kept his name on the foundation, and on its checks.

 

Trump always likes to take credit for the good things, even if he has nothing to do with those things.

 

But that’s not the real issue with his foundation.

 

The Washington Post has now done an extensive investigation and they have found that a number of the claims that the Trump Foundation has donated to certain cause were totally false.

 

In addition, the investigation found that the Trump Foundation seems to have repeatedly defied the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules that govern nonprofits.

 

The foundation gave an illegal political gift to help Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi (R).  It also appears to have bought personal items for Trump that include a $12,000 signed football helmet and a $20,000 portrait of Trump.  This is despite the IRS rules against "self-dealing" or using the foundation’s money by any of its leaders.

 

But what’s even worse, in a number of cases The Post found, the Trump Foundation has reported making donations that never happened.  After all the work, The Post only found one actual Trump donation out of 396 inquiries.

 

Here are some of the questionable cases, and it is assumed that if the investigation were to have been further expanded, additional bogus donations would probably be found;

 

The Post's reporting, looked at a number of years of tax filings, and it reached out to more than 200 people and groups listed in those filings as recipients of gifts.

 

The Trump Foundation's tax filings described giving specific amounts of money to specific charities or individuals.  In some cases, even including the recipient's address. But when The Post called those listed, they said the tax filings were wrong. These charities never received anything from Trump or his foundation.

 

The Post asked Trump's staff to explain these apparent errors, bit they would only explain the one political gift to help the Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi.  

 

Per the foundation, the incorrect gift to Bondi had been listed on the Trump Foundation's tax filings in a way that served to hide the gift, which was an improper donation to Bondi's group.  Trump's staffers say there was no intent to mislead.  They say the gift was actually added to the return by accident.  The IRS did charge Trump a fine for the improper donation and the personnel items purchased by Trump.

 

But for the other donations, the charities said they never received any money from Trump, even though it was listed on his tax returns.

 

The Giving Back Fund is a Los Angeles-based charity that serves as an umbrella group for smaller charities run by actors and celebrities. Marc Pollick, the group's president and founder, said the group had searched its donor files and found no evidence of this so called gift. "We have already reached out to the Trump Foundation to ask them to actually SEND us the $10,000 that they claimed they sent in 2008!" Pollick wrote in an email.

 

Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for an explanation of this gift.  The Trump Foundation's accountants, Weiser-Mazars, declined to comment about this gift, and all the others, citing their company policy.

 

The tax returns also say that there was a $5,000 gift to the Children's Medical Center in Omaha in 2010.

 

"Children’s Hospital & Medical Center’s Foundation does not have a gift from the Donald J. Trump Foundation or Donald Trump in its records," said Sarah Weller, a spokeswoman for the medical center.

 

Weller suggested that the Trump Foundation may have sent the money to another children's hospital, in another city. But the foundation's tax returns had the right address for the one in Omaha, down to the suite number.  Once again, Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for an explanation of this non-gift.

 

The returns list a $10,000 gift to the Latino Commission on AIDS in 2012.

 

This was one of the gifts that Trump promised on the air during a taping of "The Celebrity Apprentice."

 

During an episode in 2012, contestant Dayana Mendoza, a former Miss Universe, was there when Trump made a sweeping promise. "I'm gonna give $10,000 each to each one of you, everybody sitting at this table, for your charity," he said.

 

Five other contestants were at the table. The Trump Foundation sent $10,000 to each of their charities. This was typical for the show: Although Trump often made seemingly heartfelt promises to donate his own money, it seems that he never did so. Instead, the donations were made by a production company, or by Trump's foundation, which was filled with other people's money.

 

The Trump Foundation told the IRS that it also had given $10,000 to Mendoza's charity, the Latino Commission on AIDS.

 

But the money never arrived. "No ... donations of any kind from Donald Trump or the Donald J. Trump Foundation were received," said Daniel Leyva, at the commission.

 

As usual, Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for an explanation of this non-gift.

 

The returns also show a $10,000 gift to Friends of Veterans in 2013.

 

This last January, the phone rang at a tiny charity in White River Junction, Vt., called Friends of Veterans. This was just after Trump had held a televised fundraiser for veterans in Iowa, raising more than $5 million.

 

The man on the phone was a Trump staffer who was selecting charities that would receive the newly raised money. He said the Vermont group was already on Trump’s list, because the Trump Foundation had given it $10,000 in 2013.

 

“I don’t remember a donation from the Trump Foundation,” said Larry Daigle, the group’s president.

 

“I don’t remember that donation,” said Larry, who was a helicopter gunner with the Army during the Vietnam War. “The guy seemed pretty surprised about this.”

 

The man went away from the phone. He came back.  “Was Daigle sure”, he was asked?” He was.

 

The man thanked him and hung up. Daigle then waited, hoping for the Trump people to call back, which didn’t happen.

 

“Oh, my God, do you know how many homeless veterans I could help?” Daigle told The Post this spring, while he was still waiting.

 

But the Trump group gave away the rest of the veterans money in late May, while Daigle’s group received none of it.

 

Once again, Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for an explanation of this non-gift.

 

To top all this dishonesty, Donald’s Son Eric just got busted for Tweeting a picture of a crowded stadium Eric said was of the latest rally in Pensacola, Florida.  The picture was actually of a crowded Dallas rally months ago, and it was carefully cropped and photo shopped to remove the name of the stadium.

 

This is just another example that the "apple falls not far from the tree", and more reasons why Donald Trump is not qualified to be this nation’s commander-in-chief.

 

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