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Remember The Time Trump Tweeted About The Clinton Foundation?
Today The Trump Foundation was forced to shut down By The New York attorney general for It's pattern of illegality
while The Clinton Foundation is thriving And Helping People all around the world.
IRONY
poli-junkie
(1,006 posts)Whenever they accuse our side of doing something wrong, it will inevitably mean that they're doing illegal shit.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)projection thing. 🤪🥴
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)c-rational
(2,595 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Crooked damn republicans!
The GOP is a criminal organization!
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)seriously. All the Pizzagate crap, I think was some serious projection.
calimary
(81,466 posts)Theres a good reason for that. Because thats the way they operate. In such a manner that earns high regard. According to Charitywatch.org the last time I looked at it. During the campaign I decided to check for myself. Lots of crap was being spewed about how they kept 90% of what they raised.
Almost the exact opposite is true. The independent Charitywatch.com checked them out and found that they kept approximately 11 percent of what they raised, for administrative purposes. The accusations that those fucking republi-CONS were trying to smear them with was UPSIDE DOWN. Maybe they were thinking of how trump does business?
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)is that the Clinton Foundation has done a lot of good worldwide, and the RW attacks on the Foundation based on BS led to a drop in donations, at least in 2016. I hope they've rebounded since that time, but I have not heard anything either way.
DFW
(54,436 posts)I think we can all safely assume that "Helping People Around The World" isn't it.
I remember Bill Clinton 13 years ago talking about encouraging ideas, any ideas, how to improve the lives of people who lived in misery. One eye doctor came to him and said he noticed how many thousands upon thousands of used eyeglasses were just thrown away when their owners needed new prescriptions. The eye doctor suggested to Clinton that instead, they gather up as many "used" glasses as they could, send them to India, and let penniless people try them and keep anything that improved their eyesight. It didn't have to be an exact prescription fit, but if it meant people suddenly being able to see street signs or avoid collisions on the street, or see children playing in fields in the distance, or whatever, it was well worth doing, so they did.
Now imagine Trump even encouraging, much less getting involved with, anything of the sort. (I can't either)
underpants
(182,877 posts)I remember him talking about or (was it an expo?) about this soccer ball someone had invented. Go outside and play with for 30 minutes (exercise) and it provided enough power to run a low end laptop for an hour or so. Third world kids could be connected to the world.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)It is no doubt somewhere gathering dust with the rest of those toys they thought I needed.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)The mistakes looked like mine!
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Today was indeed a day of irony.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)what happened with that son. He was a jail bird also...right?
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Lock him up!
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)portraits of dodgy donald? Any schools, hospital wings? Children's programs?
GWC58
(2,678 posts)ah yes, theyve funded THEMSELVES! 😡👿
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)not sure what.
radical noodle
(8,013 posts)No one seems to know where that is now.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)next to Donny's spine.
radical noodle
(8,013 posts)There's a good chance you're spot on.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)radical noodle
(8,013 posts)I think there were two paintings of him because he loves looking at himself so much.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Fat, bad wig and orange face, white eyes. You would think a make up person could fix those owl eyes.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)of a fountain in Manhattan for about $250,000. The fountain just happened to be right in front of a hotel Little Donnie owns, though. True fact. You just can't make this shit up.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)WaPo from 2016....
Another Trump shoe drops
By Jennifer Rubin, Opinion writer
September 20, 2016
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/09/20/another-trump-shoe-drops/?utm_term=.a63742428706
(snip)
Those cases, which together used $258,000 from Trumps charity, were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against self-dealing which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses.
Also referenced in same article...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-used-258000-from-his-charity-to-settle-legal-problems/2016/09/20/adc88f9c-7d11-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html
For anyone having paid access to WaPo, put the term "Trump Foundation expenditures" into their search window and it gives dozens of results to help clarify the extent of their fraud.
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Ilsa
(61,698 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)to distribute the scammed money in the tRump Foundation to the Clinton Foundation.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)That would to two things:
1. Infuriate the hell out of the con
2. Land in good hands to help people who need it.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)Or somewhere that will make those little deplorable brains explode.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Of distributing the Funds are going to make sure it is given to reputable Charities. That could be the Clinton Foundation!
ffr
(22,671 posts)so they've probably never been exposed to sayings like -- "the one who smelt it, dealt it."
Figure it out, stupid people! Your stupidity puts us all in peril.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)I hope America learns to never make this mistake again
erronis
(15,328 posts)We've never had a perfect union. And I don't think one can ever exist.
We're also subject to internal and external forces that don't care about internal governance such as local/state/federal elections, etc.
It would be nice to think that we can clean up their mess for 20-50 years, but in another 100-200? Who knows.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)of what he is guilty of. Liars and cheats tend to assume everyone else does it too.
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Money could go to them!
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)"The motto was "Money..., for people". So the Trump Foundation is "Money..., for Trump.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)is the taxes he probably owes on everything he and his kids spent on themselves. The IRS is going to have a picnic crawling all over that can of worms. Trump will be bankrupt before these investigations are all over. I imagine he'll get his cult to pay for his legal aid, taxes and such. They're just that stupid.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Go Fund Me for a "billionaire".
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)spending his foundations' money for himself. Blatantly. So no mistake, planned it (to deceive) deliberately. Probably done everywhere there is a rump property, so I hope every country, every state reviews every single one of rump's tax returns.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)... for all those years. It will take the kiddies' inheritances to pay it all off.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)When one gets the outcome that one could and should expect? Ggiven that one is one of the most highly-rated and highly-respected foundations in America with a stupendous record of getting the rubber to meet the road and NOT be taken by excessive overhead and graft....and the other is a thinly-disguised (and now no longer disguised at all), sham held close to a criminal enterprise broad and deep?
Cha
(297,655 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Sad.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)winds up inadvertently calling himself a shithole, for literally every occasion and situation.
malaise
(269,157 posts)He doesn't want anyone to know he's a crook , a con and a criminal.
worstexever
(265 posts)Blame, blame. Deflect, deflect.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)Think about it: all the accusations of criminal activity, slush funds, how the Administration(HRC's) would be plagued with investigations and upheaval, etc., etc., etc
From his own mouth, he predicted his own demise. Projection on steroids. Maybe he can find a spot at the carnival, Fortuneteller Extraordinaire.
Trumpski, Seer of the Urals. Or Urinals depending on your point of view.
It's happening, falling apart in real time now. All predicted, 2+ years ago. From the mouth of the Squatter-in-Chief.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Posted in an earlier thread started by malaise:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11566784
This one in particular took an in-depth look at the Clinton Foundation:
The key question on the Clinton Foundation is whether it saved lives. The answer is clearly yes.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)about the Clinton Foundation either.
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)Idiots one and all.