Donald Trump may have repeatedly lied about giving money to 9/11 charities

[highplainsdem]

Source: NY Daily News

Republican nominee Donald Trump claims he gave generously to help his city in the dark days after the deadly terrorist attacks. But new records show a pledged promise to donate $10,000 to a major 9/11 charity must have somehow slipped his mind.

City Controller Scott Stringer conducted a review of hundreds of pages of previously sealed records of the two main 9/11 charities at the request of the Daily News, and found that Trump and his charity hadn't donated a dime in the months after 9/11.

"For the periods covered by the audits, we did not find any record of a donation from Trump himself or a Trump entity to either the Twin Towers Fund or the New York City Public/Private Initiatives Inc.," Stringer's office said in a statement to the Daily News in response to a Freedom of Information Law request.

This appears to contradict Trump's prior boasts of spontaneous generosity, made as his hometown reeled from the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history. The records show that through mid-2002 there is no evidence that Trump personally or through the Trump Foundation gave to either group.

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-lied-donating-9-11-charities-article-1.2829908

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I've had to shorten the very long headline on the article -- EXCLUSIVE: City Controller Scott Stringer investigation reveals Donald Trump may have repeatedly lied about giving money to 9/11 charities -- in the way the Daily News has in its tweet about the story:

https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/786709405349900288

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He did, however, take federal funds intended to help small businesses

recover from 9/11 even though he admitted his own properties weren't affected. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/27/joseph-crowley/did-donald-trump-cash-federal-funds-days-after-911/

[Mc Mike]

5. Thanks. $150,000 to small businessman dRumpf.

What a nauseating treasonous un-American leech.

[Dorian Gray]

8. he was all take

no give post 9-11


This is the man so many people are supporting for president.


It's insane.

[Ligyron]

2. My dog, it's almost impossible to keep up with all this stuff.

Sensory overload.

[Euphoria]

3. "May have"??????

If it's something done for someone
Else's benefit.....he definitely didn't do it.

[frogmarch]

4. Trump's Charitable Donations (NY Magazine)

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

snips:

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.

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Many of the donations also came in the form of freebies to Trump-owned businesses; the Post estimates he claimed credit for 2,900 free rounds of golf, 175 free hotel stays, 165 free meals, and 11 spa gift certificates. But in at least one case, Trump’s accountants overvalued the amount for which his free golf rounds sold at a charity auction.

[Little Tich]

6. Why couldn't he have donated just a token amount at least?

OTOH, saying that you donated 5 dollars because that was the amount of spare change in your pocket wouldn't sound much better either...

[Midnight Writer]

7. No No No. Hillary is the lying charity scam artist. Let's keep our memes straight.