Trump's Supposed Salary Donation?

[chuckperth]

Can anyone speak to the idea that trump has been donating his government salary because it would get garnished if he did not?

I guess my real question is could he have an alternative reason to forego a salary?

[Luciferous]

1. I figured he used it as a tax write off.

[soothsayer]

2. No effing way has he done that

Well... i dunno

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/here-check-trump-s-press-secretary-shows-president-s-check-n1213571

[former9thward]

5. They publish his donations every quarter.

If they are fake why has not a single reporter anywhere gone to the recipients and asked them if it was true?

[Hoyt]

3. He's gonna wish he'd taken the salary. Bet he accepts his lifetime pension.

[Thekaspervote]

4. he would receive tax reporting docs that would make it easier to look into his tax returns

[Aristus]

7. I'm pretty sure his salary "donations" are loan payments.

Spin that, Don Junior!...

[Under The Radar]

8. His own personal charity was a sham, no possible way he donates his pay.

[LiberalFighter]

9. This says otherwise

Fact check: President Donald Trump donates his salary, but he still makes money

Those supposed donations were to federal agencies.

Federal law bars donations to most federal agencies

Federal regulations bar many government agencies from accepting donations unless approved by Congress. If Congress does not approve them, the money goes to the Treasury Department's general fund.

“While gifts to the United States do not require statutory authority, gifts to an individual federal agency stand on a different footing," the law says. "The rule is that a government agency may not accept for its own use (i.e., for retention by the agency or credit to its own appropriations) gifts of money or other property in the absence of specific statutory authority ... As the Comptroller General said in that decision, “(w)hen the Congress has considered desirable the receipt of donations . . . it has generally made specific provision therefor . . . . Thus, acceptance of a gift of money or other property by an agency lacking statutory authority to do so is an improper augmentation. If an agency does not have statutory authority to accept donations of money, it must turn the money in to the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.”

[Totally Tunsie]

10. He wants the tax deduction.

If you notice, Chump isn't foregoing his salary outright. The money would stay with the government, but he'd get no benefit that way. So, he accepts his salary, and then donates it back to the government for the write off. He'll tweek the scheme for every nickel possible.

[torius]

11. he steals millions

in taxpayer dollars.

[Hamlette]

12. if garnished, they would never reach his hands.

so he isn't avoiding garnishment.

He's such a bully, no one would dare garnish the Prez