{"id":23945,"date":"2016-09-21T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23945"},"modified":"2016-09-21T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:50:09","slug":"other-peoples-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/other-peoples-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Other People&#8217;s Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I had a nickel for every time media has covered duplicitous Republican assertions about the Clinton foundation, I could invest the money and we could all join the 1% and commit TEAbuggery.&#160; Trump, on the other hand, not only brags about using other people&#8217;s money to enrich himself, but uses his Trump Foundation illegally to do do.&#160; Thanks to the Squatch for pointing me to the following article.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Trump-Bird.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald <strong>Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire\u2019s for-profit businesses<\/strong>, according to interviews and a review of legal documents.<\/p>\n<p>Those cases, which together used $258,000 from Trump\u2019s charity, were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have <strong>violated laws against \u201cself-dealing\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In one case, from 2007, Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago Club faced $120,000 in unpaid fines from the town of Palm Beach, Fla., resulting from a dispute over the size of a flagpole.<\/p>\n<p>In a settlement, Palm Beach agreed to waive those fines \u2014 if Trump\u2019s club made a $100,000 donation to a specific charity for veterans. Instead, Trump sent a check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, <strong>a charity funded almost entirely by other people\u2019s money<\/strong>, according to tax records.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, court papers say one of Trump\u2019s golf courses in New York agreed to settle a lawsuit by making a donation to the plaintiff\u2019s chosen charity. A $158,000 donation was made by the Trump Foundation, according to tax records&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/trump-used-dollar258000-from-his-charity-to-settle-legal-problems\/ar-BBwoRHU\" target=\"_blank\">MSN.com<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Hayes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> covered this story on MSNBC.&#160; First Tim:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_gtrumpfoundation_160920\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Then Lawrence:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_bblock_160920\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You know, this is such a <em>prima<\/em> <em>facie case<\/em>, that the only way Rump Dump Trump can save himself from jail, is to win the Presidency and appoint all the people with power to punish him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a nickel for every time media has covered duplicitous Republican assertions about the Clinton foundation, I could invest the money and we could all join the 1% and commit TEAbuggery.&#160; Trump, on the other hand, not only brags about using other people&#8217;s money to enrich himself, but uses his Trump Foundation illegally <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/other-peoples-money\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}