The Plot Thickens: More Trump-Bondi Allegations

[Bill USA]

http://correctrecord.org/the-plot-thickens-more-trump-bondi-allegations/

The plot has thickened in the Donald Trump-Pam Bondi scandal. The New York Times reported that the $25,000 donation from his Foundation to support Bondi’s reelection (in violation of federal law) isn’t even Trump’s first brush with campaign donation violations. The Huffington Post reported that Bondi got not only the $25K from Trump–she got a deal on the Mar-a-Lago as the site for a campaign fundraiser. Cheaper than The Donald charges his campaign!

As The New York Times editorialized, “there’s little doubt they abused the public trust” and if the pay-to-play happened on their phone call, “it could be a crime.” What is coming next?

New York Times: Donald Trump’s Donation Is His Latest Brush With Campaign Fund Limits

By Steven Eder and Megan Twohey
September 6, 2016

Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly denounced pay-to-play politics during his insurgent campaign, is now defending himself against claims that he donated $25,000 to a group supporting the Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi, to sway her office’s review of fraud allegations at Trump University.

Mr. Trump’s payment of a $2,500 penalty to the Internal Revenue Service over that 2013 campaign gift amounted to only the latest slap of his wrist in a decades-long record of shattering political donation limits and circumventing the rules governing contributions and lobbying.

In the 1980s, Mr. Trump was compelled to testify under oath before New York State officials after he directed tens of thousands of dollars to the president of the New York City Council through a myriad subsidiary companies to evade contribution limits. In the 1990s, the Federal Election Commission fined Mr. Trump for exceeding the annual limit on campaign contributions by $47,050, the largest violation in a single year. And in 2000, the New York State lobbying commission imposed a $250,000 fine for Mr. Trump’s failing to disclose the full extent of his lobbying of state legislators.

For the most part, Mr. Trump has seemed unrepentant. Testifying in 1988 about a $50,000 bank loan he had first guaranteed, and then repaid, on behalf of Andrew J. Stein’s successful campaign for New York City Council president, Mr. Trump made no bones about the move.

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[AC_Mem]

1. I hope this is the beginning

Of our future President's supporters unloading a truckload of devastating truth on cheater-Cheeto.

I'm ready to start donating again if this takes off.

Annette in Orlando

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. He sure likes those blondes doesn't he?

"something's going on here...we have to find out what the hell is going on here people!"

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Against their will, the corporate lame-stream media is being forced to pay attention

But where is our corporate lame-stream broadcast media? Shivering with GOP--Trump and hoping that this story goes away.

[applegrove]

4. Didn't it just come out that some police group paid hundreds of thousands

of dollars to rent Mar Lago for an event or two? If Bondi hardly paid anything at all was it for a similar sized event? That would be quite a donation from Trump to Bondi in kind.

[napkinz]

5. K&R

[napkinz]

6. kick