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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOctober 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
"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
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. I'll bet a crate of Dippin Dots that the republican family-values role model*
is lying about his donation to Hurricane Harvey relief.
* Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)4. had to look up Dippin Dots
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. in that pic he looks like the little puppet in Farscape
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Quick! USA and FLOTUS hats for every New Yorker!
tRump ties for everybody in Houston.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. Doesn't surprise me at all.
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.