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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 11:39 AM Nov 2016

Trump promises not to use other people's charitable donations to pay for Trump U settlement

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/22/1602942/-Trump-promises-not-to-use-other-people-s-charitable-donations-to-pay-for-Trump-U-settlement

Donald Trump has treated his “charitable foundation” as if the neediest child in all of North America is named Donald Trump. Though the coffers of the charity are filled, not with Trump’s own money, but with donations that have come from those trying to ingratiate themselves with the orange menace, Trump has dipped into his foundation to buy self portraits, pay off legal fees, pay attorneys general not to go after Trump University, pay organizations to attack an attorney general who insisted on going after Trump University, and even to pay off on a golf bet. He’s treated it as an all purpose slush-fund full of tax free income that can be used for any purpose. Which leads to concerns about how the Trump University settlement might be paid.

Donald Trump will use no charitable funds to pay off a $25 million settlement of fraud lawsuits against his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump University, an attorney for his business said Monday.

Don’t start thinking that this represents an outbreak of minimal decency on Trump’s part. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made this part of the settlement deal.

In a statement, Schneiderman spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said the attorney general's office had demanded the written assurance, “given Mr. Trump’s reported history of using his charity’s money to fund his and his businesses’ legal settlements.”

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Trump promises not to use other people's charitable donations to pay for Trump U settlement (Original Post) deminks Nov 2016 OP
Must mean he already moved the money so now it's his! WhiteTara Nov 2016 #1
You can bet he uses other people's money somehow. BSdetect Nov 2016 #2
K&R Solly Mack Nov 2016 #3
Would absolutely love if he was caught violating that one... Wounded Bear Nov 2016 #4

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
2. You can bet he uses other people's money somehow.
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:48 PM
Nov 2016

Or stiffs the GOP for renting them his hotel rooms etc etc

He does not have the cash.

More Russian cash?


Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
4. Would absolutely love if he was caught violating that one...
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:58 PM
Nov 2016

and hauled back before a judge on contempt of court charges.

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