Dog Rescue Charity Linked To Lara Trump Funneling Money Into Donald Trump's Pocket

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This family is pond scum and drifters

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A dog rescue charity with links to Lara Trump has spent as much as $1.9 million at former President Donald Trump’s properties over the last seven years and will drop an additional quarter-million at his Mar-a-Lago country club this weekend.

According to a permit filed with the town of Palm Beach, Florida, Big Dog Ranch Rescue estimates it will spend $225,000 at the club where Donald Trump has taken up full-time residence since leaving the White House. All the profit from that spending winds up in his pocket.

Internal Revenue Service filings show that the group has spent as much as $1,883,160 on fundraising costs at Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s golf course 18 miles north in Jupiter starting in 2014. Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, started being listed as a chairwoman for charity events in 2018, and the group’s president, Lauren Simmons, visited the White House in 2019 for the signing of a bill addressing animal cruelty......

Daughter-in-law Lara Trump has been advertised as a “chairwoman” of the charity’s fundraisers over the past several years. The spending by a charity she is associated with at her family’s businesses mirrors practices at Donald Trump’s now-shuttered Trump Foundation and Eric Trump’s Eric Trump Foundation, which also spent donor money at Trump properties.

The self-dealing by the Trump Foundation was so egregious that New York state Attorney General Letitia James cited it as the reason the charity could no longer operate.

Donald Trump over the course of his presidency funneled $8.5 million of Republican donor money into his own cash registers by directing spending by the entities he controlled, including the Republican National Committee, toward his own businesses. He similarly directed several million taxpayer dollars into his own properties by insisting on spending his frequent golf vacations there, thereby forcing Secret Service and other support staff to spend money at them, as well.

[Hekate]

1. My disgust with the family is absolute. nt

[canetoad]

2. Seems like they're making a pitch

At the final group of folk who would never, ever vote for Trump; dog lovers. Fucking scum.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. When does the Trump family grifting stop?

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[pwb]

4. Yuck.

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[brer cat]

5. K&R

[leftieNanner]

6. This is terrible, BUT

Someone else on the planning committee of that charity had to sign off too.

It makes me sick that a dog rescue organization is spending this kind of money NOT ON RESCUING DOGS!!

I was previously involved in an animal rescue and we were scrupulous about spending virtually every dollar on animal care, feeding, vet bills, etc.

[keithbvadu2]

7. How much did the dog charity net for said expenses?

How much did the dog charity net for said expenses?

Compared with other venues.

That should be something to brag about.

Shouldn't it?

[WA-03 Democrat]

8. Going out on a limb

But if past behaviors are any indication of the future, none to very little is going to help. This is just a charity acting as a revenue stream to rent out insanely marked up services.

No one who cares about dogs would be associated with Trump.

He always used the term “dog” in a derogatory fashion.