Trump Aide: Donald Trump Can Misuse Charity Funds However He Wants Since It’s All His Money, Silly
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Trump Aide: Donald Trump Can Misuse Charity Funds However He Wants Since It’s All His Money, Silly
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We got yet another creative explanation Wednesday of why it’s perfectly OK for Donald Trump to have paid for lawsuit settlements, ugly portraits, and a loser f’ball player’s autographed helmet using funds from his charitable foundation: According to a longtime aide to the Trump family, it’s all just fine, because while the IRS might have rules about how charities can spend their money, Donald Trump earned that charity money fair and square in the first place, so he can do what he likes with it. Yes, you might want to apply some ibuprofen directly to your cerebral cortex before trying to think about that too hard (note: not real medical advice).
Lynne Patton, who works as a “senior assistant” to three of the adult Trumpenspawn and also serves as VP of Eric Trump’s very own charitable foundation — so you know she’s an expert on charities! — explained it all to the Des Moines Register:
“A lot of times Mr. Trump will give a speech somewhere or he’ll raise money in some way and he asks that that entity, instead of cutting a personal check to him, cut it to his charity,” Patton said. “That’s money that otherwise would’ve been in his personal account, right? So when he cuts a check from his foundation for let’s say, St. Jude, it is his money,” she added. “No ifs, ands or ways about it.”
Yr Wonkette is not even a tax attorney and that sounds extremely lame to us! However the money gets into the charitable foundation, we’re fairly sure that once it’s there, under IRS rules, it needs to be used for charitable purposes only, not buying ugly paintings — even at a charity auction — which go up in a lounge at your dumb golf course. Let’s look at Patton’s moneysplaining further:
Patton did not provide a specific example of a third-party payment that would have gone to Trump directly but was instead directed to the foundation. But she provided a hypothetical: a corporation paying Trump an honorarium for a speech, and Trump directing that payment to his foundation rather than his personal bank account. “There are corporations that hire him to give public speeches all the time,” she said. “Sometimes, he says ‘Hey, I’d rather you cut a check to my charity instead of cutting it to me.’ ”
When that happens, she said, it’s the equivalent of Trump making the charitable gift himself. “That’s his money going into his foundation,” Patton said. “Just because the check doesn’t say ‘Donald and Melania Trump, TD Bank or Chase Manhattan (Bank)’ doesn’t mean it’s not their money.”
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Now, for the sake of completeness, America’s Guide To the Trump Foundation, David Fahrenthold, took to the Twitters to ask some big donors if Ms. Patton’s theory explains their large donations to the Donald J. Trump Foundation:
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Look, this is "Mob" mentality. Watch "Goodfellas": the wise guy knows the rules, but following them is for suckers. The wise guys goes around them, through them, under them. They do anything and everything to profit from not following the rules without getting caught.
Note, I'm not saying this aide knows how things work 
But I'd be very surprised if Trump and his family and crooked lawyers and such didn't know. They know very well how it all works. And they also know that most of America does *not* know how it works, and so they can often cheat and not be called on it, or talk their way out of going to jail for cheating, or bribe their way out, or pay the fine.
Are they adults? No. This is not the mentality of a mature, responsible adult. But the aide is an ignorant child, while the Trumps are criminals. Criminals know it's against the law. They take pride in the fact that they don't obey the law, and don't feel they have to obey it. Unlike all us suckers, they get away and profit from sticking it to the law.
I can just just imagine this crew within the white house, thinking that the entire country paying taxes to support the country and the money is looked like some "charitable " contribution, and should be used to pay-off a criminal enterprise inside like say Russia and other countries depots, and used in some scheme to make the appearance it was used for something else, so with that logic we have this as logic;
“A lot of times Mr. Trump will give a speech somewhere or he’ll raise money in some way and he asks that that entity, instead of cutting a personal check to him, cut it to his charity,” Patton said. “That’s money that otherwise would’ve been in his personal account, right? So when he cuts a check from his foundation for let’s say, St. Jude, it is his money,” she added. “No ifs, ands or ways about it.”
NO lady that's not how it is suppose to work,
