And Trump's charitable organization is not even certified to receive
charitable donations!!
What an idiot. I will grit my teeth and vote for Hillary but I will be
hoping for Bernie in the future.
Tina
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Just some facts:
>
> Bill and Hillary have two charitable foundations.
>
> -One, is their personal charity to which they alone donate their own money
> for a tax write off. They do have to pay some tax on this money. This is
> typical of people in both public and private life in their tax bracket. The
> money actually goes to real charitable causes.
>
> -Two, is a large public foundation that is open for anyone to donate. It
> too supports bona-fide charitable causes and has a rep for doing good work.
> Hillary is being accused of granting special access to some who have
> donated to this charity but the accusations have yet to be substantiated.
> In my opinion it would be too bad for some needy causes if this foundation
> is forced to close.
>
> Trump has a foundation similar to B&H's #1. However he doesn't use his own
> money, (or at least very, very little, ($10,000 back in 2004+/-.) What he
> has done is to have people who owe him money "donate" to this charity. Of
> course he hasn't paid tax on this money which is really income.
>
> The other and perhaps more serious issue is that he has been spending the
> money from the Trump Foundation for his own personal use or for use by his
> companies. e.g. Large pictures of himself behind the bar in at least one of
> his exclusive golf clubs. e.g. paying legal expenses of lawsuits, e.g.
> (this is bizarre) He offered a million dollar prize at one of his golf
> tournaments to anyone who shot a hole-in-one. Someone then actually did
> shoot a hole-in-one. Trump reneged of course. The person sued and settled
> out of court for around 750k. So where did the money for the defense and
> for a part of the payoff come from?? You guessed it. His answer to those
> investigating where some of this stuff went, "find it if you can". The
> investigators have found some so far.
>
> I believe that this is part of the IRS action against him. His defense is
> some obscure 1940's lower court ruling which no one uses.He has no defense
> for the misappropriation of the foundation money.
>
> Hillary is not Bernie but I will be supporting her, warts (mostly
> fabricated, some real) and all.
>
>
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