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(46,776 posts)He did not donate his salary? This is how he gets away with things. No one fact checks him. It should be a rule that if a president makes a statement about his financial situation, we should have the right to fact check him.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)and that is how it was discovered he did not donate his salary
Takket
(21,702 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,776 posts)At least, that's what everyone is concluding.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Obviously, she was too busy kissing his fat orange stinky ass.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)According to news coverage and White House news releases, Trump has written checks equal to a quarter of his $400,000 annual salary every quarter to various government agencies:
2017
Q1 National Parks Service
Q2 Department of Education
Q3 Health and Human Services
Q4 Department of Transportation
2018
Q1 Department of Veterans Affairs
Q2 Small Business Administration
Q3 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Q4 Department of Homeland Security
2019
Q1 Department of Agriculture
Q2 U.S. Surgeon Generals Office
Q3 Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health
Q4 Department of Health and Human Services
Trump and his constituents have not yet announced where he will donate his salary for the first and second quarters of 2020.
Justice matters.
(6,955 posts)It seems like the Departments and Federal Offices USAToday (corporate disinformation) reported that they never received the donations. Maybe he gave them to his corrupt cronies he put in charge there?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17495581
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)YES, that sounds more like tRUMP.
Justice matters.
(6,955 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,357 posts)calimary
(81,594 posts)Speaking with a forked tongue.
republianmushroom
(13,850 posts)Cha
(298,021 posts)relayerbob
(6,561 posts)To the Ronald K Pmurt Foundation for displaced billionaires. Headquartered in Bar-a-longo, Fl
dalton99a
(81,704 posts)Blue Owl
(50,571 posts)catchnrelease
(1,946 posts)that anyone bought that story in the first place. This clearly isn't a guy that is going to donate much of anything if he isn't forced to.
JohnnyRingo
(18,691 posts)It just doesn't sound like something he'd do, while lying does.
Do your job so called liberal media, confront him on this.
catrose
(5,079 posts)I assumed the worst. With him, you're never wrong doing that.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)And you thought he was donating anything. Lotsof fools out there.
Upthevibe
(8,106 posts)WarGamer
(12,506 posts)Just look at this thread. 100+ recs for false statement. I'm not defending Trump. But I take it personally when people disrespect me by lying to me.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/02/27/president-donald-trump-probably-donated-his-entire-16m-salary-back-to-the-us-government--here-are-the-details/?sh=8678af11a8dc
https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-president-donald-trump-probably-donated-his-entire-16m-salary-back-to-the-us-government--here-are-the-details/
In 2017, President Trump gave:
Q1: $78,333 to the Department of Interiors National Park Service (NPS) for maintenance backlog at historic battlefields. Specifically, the donation went to restore the Newcomer House on the Antietam battlefield and for the replacement of its deteriorated rail fencing.
Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Education to host a free, two-week space camp for 30 low-income, middle school girls. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received a $100,000 check in 2017, and announced a year later that the Presidents donation had doubled the space camps participants.
Q3: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.
Q4: $100,000 to the Department of Transportation to support its programs to rebuild and modernize our crumbling infrastructure.
In 2018, President Trump gave:
Q1: $100,000 to the Veterans Administration for caregiver support in the form of mental health and peer support programs, financial aid, education training, and research.
Q2: $100,000 to the Small Business Administration earmarked for a seven-month training program tailored for veteran entrepreneurs.
Q3: $100,000 to the National Institutes of Healths National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trumps brother died of alcoholism-related causes at the age of 43.
Q4: $100,000 to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump tweeted, While the press doesnt like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didnt do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!
In 2019, President Trump gave:
Q1: $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be used for outreach programs that benefit farmers[.]
Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Surgeon General. The President tweeted, I donate 100% of my Presidents salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!
Q3: $100,000 to the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis.
Q4: $100,000 to HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to confront, contain, and combat #Coronavirus[.]
In 2020, President Trump gave:
Q1: $100,000 to HHS to develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.
Q2: $100,000 to the NPS in July 2020 to help pay for repairs on national monuments.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)How much did he steal from the American people overcharging for everything he possibly could?
I'd be willing to bet that $1.6 million is a single digit percentage of what he stole from the U.S. taxpayers.
We'll probably never know the total amount he stole from us. He's excellent at hiding his tracks.
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SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I suggested he donated every penny. That makes Teidrich irrelevant. The question I raised was how much he stole up and above his $1.6 million salary.
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SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)A Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, WarGamer. And a happy, peaceful, and prosperous New Year as well.
SunSeeker
(51,798 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 25, 2022, 08:52 AM - Edit history (1)
His only known gift in 2020 was $220k to the National Park Service on July 23, 2020, according to government documents. The Washington Post said it surveyed all major federal agencies and none reported receiving anything from Trump after that gift in July 2020. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-didnt-appear-to-donate-presidents-salary-for-last-6-months-2021-7?amp=#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16719680908640&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
Making ocassional gifts to the enitity of his choice means he is still controlling the money, i.e. it is his money. Saying he won't take a salary means it stays in the general fund. That's not what happened. Doesn't sound like Tiedrich is lying.
niyad
(113,883 posts)70sEraVet
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niyad
(113,883 posts)that money.
And there is the small issue of donating your federal salary to a federal agency. I wonder how much he got in kickbacks from those various projects?How about donating it to some non-profits, some do-gooder groups?
SunSeeker
(51,798 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 25, 2022, 09:00 AM - Edit history (3)
Who knows what really happened to money he claims he gave to federal agencies run by his appointed cronies. Plus, his only known gift in 2020 was $220k to the National Park Service on July 23, 2020, according to government documents. The Washington Post said it surveyed all major federal agencies and none reported receiving anything from Trump after that gift in July 2020. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-didnt-appear-to-donate-presidents-salary-for-last-6-months-2021-7?amp=#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16719680908640&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
Regardless, making ocassional gifts to the enitity of his choice means he is still controlling the money, i.e. it is his money. Saying he won't take a salary means it stays in the general fund. That's not what happened.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)progressoid
(50,013 posts)All it shows is that he received it as a salary/income and then wrote checks to various agencies (except for the last 6 months which are in dispute).
Actual link to this info would be nice way to back up your claim Jeff.