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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump promises not to use other people's charitable donations to pay for Trump U settlement
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/22/1602942/-Trump-promises-not-to-use-other-people-s-charitable-donations-to-pay-for-Trump-U-settlementDonald Trump has treated his charitable foundation as if the neediest child in all of North America is named Donald Trump. Though the coffers of the charity are filled, not with Trumps own money, but with donations that have come from those trying to ingratiate themselves with the orange menace, Trump has dipped into his foundation to buy self portraits, pay off legal fees, pay attorneys general not to go after Trump University, pay organizations to attack an attorney general who insisted on going after Trump University, and even to pay off on a golf bet. Hes treated it as an all purpose slush-fund full of tax free income that can be used for any purpose. Which leads to concerns about how the Trump University settlement might be paid.
Donald Trump will use no charitable funds to pay off a $25 million settlement of fraud lawsuits against his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump University, an attorney for his business said Monday.
Dont start thinking that this represents an outbreak of minimal decency on Trumps part. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made this part of the settlement deal.
In a statement, Schneiderman spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said the attorney general's office had demanded the written assurance, given Mr. Trumps reported history of using his charitys money to fund his and his businesses legal settlements.
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Trump promises not to use other people's charitable donations to pay for Trump U settlement (Original Post)
deminks
Nov 2016
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WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)1. Must mean he already moved the money so now it's his!
Scum from the bottom of the swamp.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)2. You can bet he uses other people's money somehow.
Or stiffs the GOP for renting them his hotel rooms etc etc
He does not have the cash.
More Russian cash?
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)3. K&R
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)4. Would absolutely love if he was caught violating that one...
and hauled back before a judge on contempt of court charges.