Oh boy. Evidence mounting that Trump-foundation is probably a bribery slush-fund.

[DetlefK]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/8/1568194/-Multiple-Charities-Tell-WaPo-s-Fahrenthold-They-Didn-t-Receive-Donations-Trump-Fnd-Reported-To-IRS

WaPo-journalist David Farenthold has so far identified 323 instances where Trump said he donated money to a charity, but the charity never received any money.

What's also interesting: He has identified 5 cases where the Trump-foundation claimed charity-donations in IRS-documents, but the Trump-foundation never actually passed that money on to those charities mentioned in the IRS-documents.



If the money that supposedly was sent to charities never reached those charities, where did it go???

https://twitter.com/DerWouter/status/773972538078728199

[roscoeroscoe]

1. Like a bug

Coming out into the light of day

[KewlKat]

2. Could this be an OCTOBER SURPRISE?

by the time the facts rise to the surface and research is done............it may be October.......................

[Upthevibe]

3. I'm not real up on tax laws but I know it's illegal to say you donated when you didn't.

Also, wouldn't he have to have the proof? And if the organizations have clear records that he didn't donate, couldn't there be real trouble for him if he cheated on his taxes? I mean people go to jail for things like that, don't they? It's becoming clearer and clearer why he doesn't want to release them. If he did, then these charities would see that Trump has said he donated when he didn't and they would be compelled to tell the powers that be.

[NewJeffCT]

59. He'll probably also claim

that just lending his name to the charity is of priceless value.

[jimmil]

47. As a tax lawyer once told me.....

Declare everything. If you don't that is tax evasion and is against the law. After that, write everything off. If you get caught that's a woops. No harm done. Just pay it and you're done.

[cstanleytech]

58. I think the bigger thing thats illegal is to lie to the IRS over it.

They do tend to frown on it after all.

[Lsantos04]

61. I really hope so

Trump's campaign needs to be stopped. He is a conman who is totally unfit to serve as the leader of this country.

[KewlKat]

4. Aren't the taxes of those RECEIVING these drumpf donations available for review....

so you could just go online, see if they report "receiving" the drumpf foundation funds

[The Wielding Truth]

53. That would take some digging, but it seems like it could be done. Hmmmm....Money and time.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. Talk me down off the ledge.

Ian Bremmer, normally assuring, had nothing but bad news on Obama's G20 trip. That China is not respectful. That NATO is doomed. On and on. And an interview with The Daily Caller he did provided plenty of Hillary trash talk and pumped up Trump talk to make us nauseous through November. Not even catastrophic global warming news and the millions of people of no real consequence devastated arouse any passion to combat it.

On Charlie Rose as well Bremmer left me terrified of the complacency of foreign affairs experts.

Nobody knows what will happen other than Putin wins. We lose. And much of this from stems directly from our response to 911.

[BlueInPhilly]

20. Was this reply in the wrong thread?

We're talking about Trump's bogus charitable donations.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. funny BIP

[pnwmom]

22. Don't watch anyone who chooses to go on a RW site like the Daily Caller. They're trying to make you

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fearful to the point of nausea, because they think it helps their candidate. Don't swallow their bait..

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. I had just seen him on Charlie Rose. He is often on that show.

So I googled his name and Trump. I did the same with Mike Allen. It's possible his quotes were heavily redacted.

I put this here because everyone knows how corrupt and what a liar Trump is. But the world is dangerous and our traditional methods of handling crisis aren't working. I think he has caused foreign policy experts to doubt themselves.

Everything he goes aftet he gies about in the worst way imaginable. He get his kicks out of doing that. He likes flaunting how outrageous and beyond the law or immortal he is. It is who he is. I've lived through his career since I moved to Manhattan in 1976. Rudy was a factor in my leaving in 1998. I think Trump is the most evil man to come along in this country's history.

On the upside, NPR seems to have learned something from the Lauer debacle.

And what I find also strange is this he is rising at the same time of a cultural phenomenon like "Hamilton". That shouldn't happen. I believe he is successfully hypnotizing us.

[pnwmom]

33. The world is dangerous and the problems are serious.

And Trump is selling fear -- and hate. He does seem almost hypnotic, drawing some in and paralyzing others with hopelessness.

But we shouldn't let fear cloud our judgment, as you know. And we shouldn't let ourselves get sucked in by places like the Daily caller, or by people like Trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Three Hundred Twenty Three? If that's not a smoking gun, what is?

Criminals like tRump get away with so much for so long they think they are immune. Then they run for President.

Thank goodness this is coming out before the election. There is half a chance people will hear about it before they vote.

If the media did not hold their [font color = "purple"]profit motive[/font] above their patriotism, just like tRump, then people would have a real chance to hear about it.

[Coyotl]

12. You assume the media has patriotism? Really???

The media is controlled by the global, right-wing oligarchic plutocracy. The United States is just another slave farm and resource extraction zone for profits, something to manipulate to avoid taxation.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. it is to them, you mean

I'd like to think the US is a bit more than just that very cynical view.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

65. The on-air personnel & many other US citizens in the media could be much more patriotic. . . nt

[Jon King]

7. Thank you

So glad I found this site. Finally a place to see the real facts that the media never reports. And read posts by sane people as opposed to the Trumpy nuts in my town!

[KewlKat]

9. Welcome aboard

[leftynyc]

14. Welcome to DU

If you don't mind me asking, where is it you're from?

[randome]

17. TAKE THAT BACK!

Not everyone who posts here is sane. But welcome to DU!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[chillfactor]

27. welcome....

you are correct....if you want to know facts that media doesn't report or skews.....this is the place to be.

[jaxind]

8. Real Weight

Will this story, please, carry some real weight?? I was so excited when I read/heard about the Pam Bondi story on other outlets besides just DU, but that lasted about 2 days, and then poof...it was gone! Will this story actually build traction and stay in the public eye where it needs to be???

[KewlKat]

10. I'm crossing fingers that Joy Reid gets this out

I found her facebook and posted on there about this but it doesn't appear, so not sure if they review them or what. I don't know how to twitter, but maybe someone that does could SPAM the Kos link on her twitter feed?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/8/1568194/-Multiple-Charities-Tell-WaPo-s-Fahrenthold-They-Didn-t-Receive-Donations-Trump-Fnd-Reported-To-IRS

@JoyAnnReid



we need to get this out so others can start reviewing all these form 990s fund distributions and see what they find. We know about 25K, I'm betting there are way more!


https://www.citizenaudit.org/organization/133404773/DONALD%20J%20TRUMP%20FOUNDATION%20INC/

[Coyotl]

11. #OrangeIsTheNewOrange ***** #CriminalTrump

I know we're using the adjective Lying Republican. So now the question arises, do we use lying criminal Republican or criminal lying Republican?

Or just rotate use?

[yellowcanine]

15. Clerical errors, dontcha know?

[randome]

18. That Meredith McIver -she can't do anything right!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[yellowcanine]

16. Maybe the "IRS Audit" is real and this is it?

Maybe it is not Trump himself who is being audited but the Trump Foundation. Developing......

[Justice]

19. 323 instances where Trump said he donated money to a charity, but charity never received $$$

Not a slush fund - fraud.

[BlueInPhilly]

21. No taxes, no coverage

We should demand that the news media stop covering Trump until he releases his taxes. Or talk about nothing until he releases his taxes. As a voter, I am entitled to know whether I have paid more taxes than this self-proclaimed billionaire.

[sarcasmo]

23. Kick for traction.

[Wounded Bear]

24. K & R ......for visibility..nt

[liberal N proud]

26. His foundation is corrupt so he assumes The Clinton Foundation must be

He thinks this just how business is done.

[anamandujano]

34. He's not assuming. He is simply turning the tables.

If you watched Downton Abbey, remember Barrow and O'Brien were stealing wine and Bates found out. They immediately accused Bates of what they had been doing causing him a lot of trouble and taking any possible heat off them.

[liberal N proud]

35. Republicans have long done that, accused their opponents of that which the are guilty

[anamandujano]

36. Trump has been doing this non-stop. It's his go-to stance on every issue.

No doubt his Repuke advisors got him started on the path.

[Hekate]

48. This is simply part of DTs life-long pattern of behavior, not at all new.

[anamandujano]

54. As luck would have it, I know practically nothing about him.

I only know what I've learned here at DU as I have scrupulously avoided him throughout his whole career based on my good instincts. I had no idea he was such a big ball of corrupt cotton candy.

[get the red out]

28. The big media outlets have to get on this

I doubt they will, and it will amount to nothing, unlike EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS...................

[Thinkingabout]

30. Even the funds collected for his Veterans had to be beat out of him. He bragged about the amount

and then did not deliver promptly.

[oasis]

32. Trump was pissed when the story broke because it forced him to kick in

a lot of his own cash to make up for the shortfall.

[Thinkingabout]

41. Probably was the reason he delayed.

[Motley13]

52. He was shamed into coughing it up by a veteren

that was other people's money that he was going to pocket. How many times has that happened?

[Sophiegirl]

31. Kick! nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. Kick for visibility.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. OK...So he said he gets audited EVERY year. Hmmmmm.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Ok...looking at his twitter - don't even see anything about this. Why isn't it

trending and all over the place

[world wide wally]

42. Lock the motherfucker up so we can get on with life

[BlueInPhilly]

43. Another kick

This is YUGE! It is bordering on the criminal.

[SunSeeker]

44. K & R for exposure.

[bucolic_frolic]

45. Milking it

rakin' it off the top ... a slush fund

been known to happen in the casino world

Money's disappearing? My goodness, who'd have thought it?

[alfredo]

46. Charity watch shows Trump didn't do his homework on veterans charities

https://www.charitywatch.org/charitywatch-hot-topic/how-does-charitywatch-rate-the-veterans-charities-on-trump-39-s-fundraiser-list-/60

[Bill USA]

49. But will GOP Toady-ville, M$M report on it.....they're more interested in Hillary's look or coughing

[kacekwl]

50. HEADLINES I need to see headlines.

Breaking news.....where is it ?

[TryLogic]

51. Maybe an indictment would get someone's attention.

[Mc Mike]

55. "Trump 2016: I'm Not In Jail Yet!"

[ffr]

56. Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

Investigate #BondiGate

[Coyotl]

64. #VoteGOPout #CrookedDonald #FlipItDem #DontheCon #DontBooVote #ImWithHer

A lot of great hashtags to follow right now. And Trump's rapid descent is obvious, the billionaire is not above the law like he assumes.
And the guy he said wasn't an American is at he top of the law enforcement chain of command.

[niyad]

57. geeeeee, ya think?????

[bucolic_frolic]

60. Teapot Dome

Lots of things don't obey laws in politics and business

It's the most flagrant that get away with things ... shameless audacity

[Farmgirl1961]

62. Here's some more detailed information...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-charity-donations/

How can we DU'ers get this more attention? -- who posted that information about different twitter accounts?

[fleabiscuit]

63. The headline gave me a happy. K&R

[C Moon]

66. That's okay: how's his email?