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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:34 PM Aug 2017

October 2016: "Trump may have repeatedly lied about giving money to 9/11 charities"

Something to remember in light of his "$1 million donation to Harvey victims." It may never happen.

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.

The controller's office pointed out that because the reviewed period only covered the year after the attacks for the Twin Towers Fund, they "are unable to conclude definitively that Trump never gave to either of these two funds."

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

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October 2016: "Trump may have repeatedly lied about giving money to 9/11 charities" (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2017 OP
I'll bet a crate of Dippin Dots that the republican family-values role model* Achilleaze Aug 2017 #1
had to look up Dippin Dots Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #4
in that pic he looks like the little puppet in Farscape Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #2
Quick! USA and FLOTUS hats for every New Yorker! ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #3
Doesn't surprise me at all. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #5

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. I'll bet a crate of Dippin Dots that the republican family-values role model*
Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:37 PM
Aug 2017

is lying about his donation to Hurricane Harvey relief.

* Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. Doesn't surprise me at all.
Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:02 PM
Aug 2017

The stingy bastard is incapable of caring about human suffering. I would even guess that he is probably the richest person in the country with the smallest lifetime percentage of charitable giving. He's such a disgusting POS.

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