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Trump Has a Long History of Seeking Political Favors. Here's How It Began
Learning the business from his father, who created the real estate dynasty.
Just days before Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi decided not to investigate Trump University, she requested and received a $25,000 check from Donald Trump’s charitable foundation. Although Trump denied he ever discussed his scandal-plagued Trump U with Bondi, and praised her as “a great representative of the people,” the curious timing of the donation has prompted the inevitable question: Are there pay-to-play scandals lurking in his past?
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As Eichler would later tell Barrett, Donald Trump informed him, “I could buy a United States senator for $200,000,” and that Governor Hugh Carey would “do anything for a developer who gives him a campaign contribution.” The Trumps contributed more than $35,000 to Carey’s first campaign for governor. When Donald needed planning board approval and tax breaks as he redeveloped the old Commodore Hotel at Grand Central Terminal, he got them.
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The father who taught Donald Trump everything he knew was routinely asking for favors from politicians who received his financial support. And the record shows that Trump took up the practice in the 1970s and continued it ever since. - Read More - Fortune.com
Just days before Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi decided not to investigate Trump University, she requested and received a $25,000 check from Donald Trump’s charitable foundation. Although Trump denied he ever discussed his scandal-plagued Trump U with Bondi, and praised her as “a great representative of the people,” the curious timing of the donation has prompted the inevitable question: Are there pay-to-play scandals lurking in his past?
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As Eichler would later tell Barrett, Donald Trump informed him, “I could buy a United States senator for $200,000,” and that Governor Hugh Carey would “do anything for a developer who gives him a campaign contribution.” The Trumps contributed more than $35,000 to Carey’s first campaign for governor. When Donald needed planning board approval and tax breaks as he redeveloped the old Commodore Hotel at Grand Central Terminal, he got them.
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The father who taught Donald Trump everything he knew was routinely asking for favors from politicians who received his financial support. And the record shows that Trump took up the practice in the 1970s and continued it ever since. - Read More - Fortune.com
Walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, according to RW'ers, must be a cow.
