Melania Trump Event Called Off

[RandySF]

“A Florida fund-raiser planned for April that was to feature Melania Trump has been called off after state regulators there concluded that the company working with the former first lady to organize the charitable event had not properly registered to solicit contributions,” the New York Times reports.

“Tickets were put on sale for as much as $50,000 for a VIP table, with the money, she said, slated to provide scholarships to children emerging from foster care.”




https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/politics/melania-trump-fund-raiser-postponed.html

[Ohio Joe]

1. Another charity scam by TFG...

I bet the marks were lined up for it.

[Samrob]

14. Aren't children emerging from foster care adults? nt

[Tommymac]

52. Are these the 'Foster Care' kids she wants to help?

[Bev54]

21. She tried hard, must piss them off that everyone is on to the family grifting

[live love laugh]

50. Are these the same kids TFG put in foster care ... or worse?

scholarships to children emerging from foster care.

[onethatcares]

2. deathsantis won't step in here

he probably even sicced the state regulators on her..I think that's great...3 super egos eating each others bullshit......it's even better they're all pukes.

[leftieNanner]

3. Excellent!

Apparently she said that "a PORTION of the proceeds" would go to scholarships.

Reminds me of the golf events for a children's cancer charity that Brother Gums organized, insisting that all the money would go to the charity. OOPS! He forgot the fine print........ minus fees for the Trump business. Golf carts don't grow on trees, you know.

[a kennedy]

5. Oh ya know, like, ah, ZERO portions of the proceeds. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[leftieNanner]

7. Zero is a number! nt

[Grokenstein]

31. Reminded of Monty Python's "Llap-Goch" parody advert

* DEVELOP UP TO 38" BICEPS
* GROW UP TO 12" TALLER
* LOSE UP TO 40" OF FAT IN YOUR FIRST WORK-OUT!
* PROLONG YOUR LIFE BY UP TO 1,000 YEARS
* GO TO BED WITH UP TO ANY LUDICROUS NUMBER OF GIRLS YOU CARE TO THINK OF
PROVIDING YOU REALIZE THIS STATEMENT IS QUITE MEANINGLESS AS THE PHRASE
"UP TO" CLEARLY INCLUDES THE NUMBER "NOUGHT."

Full text-only source: http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/ayshames/Python/LLAPGOCH.PYTHON
For the actual page from book, just pop "Llap-Goch" into Google Images

[DENVERPOPS]

23. If you all looked into the many "charities"

you would be appalled at even some famous ones that direct a large segment to "administration" costs.

The FBI said that there are entire groups of charities that are over run with people starting it and gleaming most of the money collected by their donors. They said in the article I read that by far, the worst group was Breast Cancer Charities. They said the number of them was staggering, and that last year they began to investigate just 600 of them across the nation.

If you want to give money, there are respectable websites that have investigated all legitimate ones, and give the breakdown of how much money goes to the head of the charity, and all administrative salaries and wages......

Sorry, I can't remember the name of the biggest one, but it is on the internet somewhere!

My family gives a whole big bunch of money every year to one of the best here in Colorado, FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES !!! I think their Admin expense is like 3%.........They are a huge group, and help people all along the front range and do a spectacular job with many people volunteering their time..........

[SergeStorms]

26. Charity Navigator is a great site....

for investigating the legitimacy of charities. They tell you who they are, and what percentage of the charity goes to "administrative costs". You wouldn't believe some of these "charities". Some use outside organizers to run their "charity" drives, to the tune of 25, 30, even 40% of the money they take in.

I never give a penny to anyone without checking Charity Navigator first, even the most honest sounding charities.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. Thank you SS

That website is the best.

I have noticed that several of the assumed "good" charities, that were exposed for outright fraud, among other things, laid low for a couple of years, and have recently come back full steam ahead, counting on potential donors to have poor memories.

I gotta tell you, most of the things that come at us are scams.......The Federal Trade Commission that went after false advertisers was neutered by Reagan in the 80's and were never able to get back on their feet and get back to their jobs of protecting us from grifters and corporations committing blatant false advertising.......

Just look at THE epitome of criminal charities, committed and still committing fraud, by Trump and his Spawn....and they got their hands slapped and started new ones..........At least Melanoma's are spotted right from the git go and publicized across the nation before it even gets started...............

Grifters, one and all.

[SergeStorms]

46. Yep, you can't be too cautious.

When I still had a land line telephone I used to get solicitations all the time. The national "do not call" list was a joke, so I just got rid of the land line. Anyway, I always told them " I don't give donations over the phone, mail me your information". Know what? None if them ever mailed me their information. I'll never figure out why. Everybody wants to steal your money.

Take care, DP. Stay healthy.

[calimary]

32. Well of course! Poor pitiful girl needs new shoes.

Only the finest designer productions.

[SergeStorms]

35. Doesn't Ivanka steal shoe designs?

I read once that she got in a bit of trouble for copying some famous shoe designer's pattern and calling them her own. Made in China, of course, where there are no copyright or patent infringement laws.

[calimary]

48. She'd copy a design, and then change the ankle strap ever so slightly

so maybe it was slightly slimmer than the pricey version, or the sky-high heel was maybe a half-inch shorter or some such. Just change the design or a design element ever-so-slightly and Presto Change, you declare it YOURS “because it’s DIFFERENT!!!” and you're off to the races. And very few people are the wiser, and you DID "change" something that technically makes your version different from the original, so you get away with it. Especially if you're selling yours for $150 while the original costs 800-900 dollars. I read an article about that awhile back. Back when she was still "in business."

[gratuitous]

4. I wonder if the early sign-ups will be able to get their deposits back?

No, I don't wonder at all.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. According to the article, state charity bosses say any money...

(and there shouldn't be much) already received will go to a... recognized charity.

That's if they can find the money or a legitimate charity-- this is Florida, after all.

Does it matter that she hasn't reserved a venue for this thing "somewhere in Florida"?

[Srkdqltr]

6. Grifters

[underpants]

9. I used to register a charity to fund raise in states

Is that very hard at all. Fees are maybe $150 but usually about $50.

[sarcasmo]

10. Money laundering "event."

[tenderfoot]

11. the money, she said, slated to provide scholarships to children emerging from foster care.

Suuuuuureeee Jan.

[SergeStorms]

30. So she's saying Barron, Ivanka, Jr. and Gums......

are "Foster Children" now, huh?

Drink a can of Foster's beer, you're a Foster Child now. These Trumps are world class grifters.

[Celerity]

12. Shut ALL the grift down! I so hope that Slovene back-worker ends up having her citizenship stripped

(for obtaining it fraudulently), ALL her wealth confiscated, and her and chain-migrated shit fam are sent packing back to a hovel in Slovenia.

[Corgigal]

18. All of this, please.

Today works.

[SheltieLover]

25. +1,000,000!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

41. Hypocrites

And Trump has the atrocity to talk about foreign immigration fraud??????????
Trump, Melania, and her family wrote the book on how to accomplish it, if you have enough money........
Send her, and her family back home and see how they are treated...............

[Skittles]

13. try to imagine if Hillary behaved like this

what repukes would be saying

[smirkymonkey]

15. Ugh! I can't believe that woman has the nerve to show her face in public.

She is just as vulgar and greedy as her husband.

[SergeStorms]

33. Her father is the same way.

They say one of the reasons she was "attracted" to Donald (beside the Trump fortune) was he reminded her of her father. He's a complete asshole too, I guess.

[smirkymonkey]

44. Scum attracts scum, I suppose.

I really hope we see them get what they deserve one day soon. They are horrible people.

[SergeStorms]

47. We can only hope.

And not one or two of them, I want them all, every stinking human being with a single strand of Trump DNA, in prison.

I'm easy to please, and I'm not asking for much.

[llmart]

43. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.

I said right from the start that she was no better than him. Then she wore that jacket and proved me right.

By the way, she's shown more than her face in public if you get my drift.

[smirkymonkey]

45. Yes, I get it. They are both so vulgar and classless.

Those who are attracted to them just reveal themselves and their values. I keep a wide berth.

[struggle4progress]

16. "Won't anyone think of the Non-fungus Tokens?"

[Celerity]

20. Mel knows her way around a fungus

[Beartracks]

17. Well, crap. How do I get a refund?

a) Pfft! Like I'd really buy a ticket to a Trump scam event.

b) Pfft! Like they'd really give out a refund!!


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[Brainfodder]

19. The plagiarists grift-a-thon is cancelled, boo hoo!

Can we get a comment from....

Excuse me while I fart in their general direction.

[Initech]

22. I would bet 0.0000001% of that money actually goes to charity.

[DENVERPOPS]

42. Did she even pay the amount required

to register her so called "charity", all these times???????

[Cozmo]

24. And here she thought scamming was so easy, what a moroon!

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Well, y'gotta admit, it's pretty easy here. "There's a sucker born every minute" P.T. Barnum

[Evolve Dammit]

27. 50K to sit next to that vapid, plastic, former loser last lady? I wouldn't pay five bucks.

[paleotn]

34. Same here. You'd have to pay me....

7 figures. Non negotiable. Even then it would be the worst moment of my life.

[Cozmo]

37. Yeah, go figure

[Hoosier_Progressiv]

29. Really?

Now who believes a repuglican (spelling intended) gives a fuck about any children, especially those emerging from foster care needing an education? Does anyone notice that most colleges give scholarships to excellent students with high grades anyway? So will these be "scholarships" for those in financial need. That would mean a repuglican helping someone out of poverty. Be careful, repugs, you would not want this idea to spread.

[Cha]

36. More FUCKUPS From the GASLIT

FUBARED trumputin Clan.. GFY to HELL.

[Blue Owl]

38. Will there be a grift exchange?

[BlueIdaho]

39. Even Florida can't ignore the grift

Malaria is such a fucking criminal…

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. EXCLUSIVE: Melania Trump's BeBest fundraiser ends in failure after official scrutiny

This was a scam. Grifters have to grift

Link to tweet

https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/03/03/exclusive-melania-trumps-bebest-fundraiser-ends-in-failure-after-official-scrutiny/

Two and a half weeks ago, news broke that the former First Lady’s fundraising event was purportedly to raise money for a BeBest initiative charity named “Fostering the Future” with tickets as expensive as $50,000 and a state of Florida investigation into the event, according to a New York Times expose.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ strategic communications officer Erin Moffett responded to our request for comment today to say that Whip Fundraising, the organization that was actually running the event for Trump, is about to complete its registration process with the state as a result of its investigation. Their website accessvast.com is no longer public, but an archived version shows unverified claims about raising millions for charities.

Furthermore, Moffett says that a new and different charity named Generation Justice Inc. stepped in to be the properly registered charitable beneficiary of Melania Trump’s BeBest fundraising efforts. Once registered, Whip Fundraising plans to associate itself with Generation Justice. Her office plans to issue an official statement later today about the matter.......

This isn’t the Trump family’s first foray with state regulators over charity fundraising problems. The former president paid a hefty $2 million fine for admitting to 19 violations of the law in a settlement with New York’s Attorney General dissolving the Trump Foundation. Donald Trump admitted to personal misuse of funds along with an agreement to restrict his involvement in charitable “service” in the future while in the Oval Office.

[GoodRaisin]

51. Guess she'll have to find a different way to steal. nt