Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk gave 150,000 to Trump Foundation for addressing his conference

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Miriam Elder ?@MiriamElder 16m16 minutes ago
Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk gave $150,000 to Trump Foundation for addressing his annual conference by video

Recently-released tax returns for the Trump Foundation show the six-figure donation was made by the London office of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2015.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation confirmed Tuesday that the $150,000 payment to Trump’s foundation was for a 2015 speech Trump gave via video at a conference organized by the Pinchuk Foundation.

“The payment to President-elect Trump’s foundation was in support of video link appearance at a conference called Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting, which the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and Yalta European Strategy (YES) — an NGO founded by Mr. Pinchuk — organize annually in September in Ukraine,” wrote Thomas Weihe, head of the board of the Pinchuk Foundation, in an email to BuzzFeed News.

One of the richest men in Ukraine, Pinchuk is a pro-Western businessman whose father-in-law, Leonid Kuchma, was Ukraine’s second president.


read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/trump-foundation-received-150000-donation-in-exchange-for-20?utm_term=.aryWLyNQB#.mnrdMnmzZ

Miriam Elder ?@MiriamElder 21m21 minutes ago
(@maxseddon’s write-up of that remains amazing https://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/donald-trump-brings-the-donald-trump-show-to-ukraine?utm_term=.lpWKVRqkVp#.vmyZkp7gkL …)

Miriam Elder ?@MiriamElder 21m21 minutes ago
“It was not entirely clear why Trump decided to speak at the conference...weeks after saying... Crimea’s annexation was 'Europe’s problem.’"

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1. For the amount to be that large, you just know something crooked was going on (ntxt)

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2. so much of what he was criticizing on the campaign trail