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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump used charity money to buy his own portrait because no one else would: lawyers
By Julia Marsh October 25, 2018 | 2:36pm | Updated
Donald Trump had no choice but to blow $10,000 in charity money on a giant painting of himself because no one else wanted it, his lawyers claimed in court Thursday.
Trump picked up the infamous painting now at the center of a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general who alleges suspect spending by the charity during a 2014 auction benefiting The Unicorn Foundation at his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida.
So Mr. Trump donates $10,000 to start the bidding, and then when the bidding goes on and no one else bids, theyre stuck with the painting, his attorney Alan Futerfas told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla as he asked for the case to be dismissed.
And so the Art of the Deal author got the raw end of the deal and wound up having to plunk down $10,000 on the portrait. But rather than fork over the dough himself, Trump billed his own Donald J. Trump Foundation for the cost.
Prosecutors say Trump also used charitable foundation money to pay off his creditors, decorate one of his golf clubs with the portrait, and boost his presidential campaign.
Theyre making a mountain out of a molehill, Futerfas said of the allegations.
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Trump used charity money to buy his own portrait because no one else would: lawyers (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2018
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tanyev
(42,568 posts)1. OK, I can totally believe nobody else wanted to buy it.
unblock
(52,253 posts)2. not "no one *else* wanted it" -- "*no one* wanted it". even donnie didn't want it! lol!
he refused to buy it himself and got his "charitable" foundation to buy it instead!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Did not get a good deal on the art
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)4. This does not help his case any.
Even if he donated to get the bidding started with no intention of buying it & got stuck, he was stuck personally, his charity cannot legally pick up his personal obligations.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. Should have started the bidding at $1. n/t
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)6. Nobody forced Trump to use FOUNDATION money though. He could have used his personal money,
and then nobody would be accusing him of self-dealing. See how that works, moron lawyers?