The Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have violated its tax-exempt status..
The Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have violated its tax-exempt status by participating in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and by advocating for his nomination and election, according to an IRS complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
The Trump Foundation began acting as a prop for the campaign with a January veterans’ charity event the Trump campaign held to compete with a GOP debate. Trump campaign employees were directly involved in selecting and screening at least some of the groups to receive donations, asking those groups whether they would appear at a Trump campaign event and receive a donation from the Trump Foundation.
At numerous campaign rallies, Trump himself handed out ceremonial checks from the Trump Foundation with the words “Make America Great Again!” printed on them to charity representatives. The IRS bans groups like the Trump foundation from activity that “explicitly advocates the election or defeat of an individual to public office.” The Federal Election Commission (FEC) defines “expressly advocating” the election or defeat of a candidate to include “communications of campaign slogan(s)” which “can have no other reasonable meaning than to urge the election or defeat of a candidate.” “Make America Great Again” is clearly recognizable as the Trump campaign’s slogan, most often seen on hats worn by Trump and his supporters.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/trump-foundation-likely-broke-law-supporting-trump-campaign/
Why isn't the media talking about this?
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not the maggot
