Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.

[NCTraveler]

In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans’ families.

Before that, however, when was the last time that Trump gave any of his own money to a charity?

If Trump stands by his promises, such donations should be occurring all the time. In the past 15 years, Trump has promised to donate earnings from a wide variety of his money-making enterprises: “The Apprentice.” Trump Vodka. Trump University. A book. Another book. If he honored all those pledges, Trump’s gifts to charity would have topped $8.5 million.

But in that time, public records show, Trump donated about $2.8 million — less than a third of the pledged figure — through a foundation set up to give his money away. And there is no evidence that Trump has given to his foundation lately: The last record of any gift from him to his foundation was in 2008.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html

[PJMcK]

1. Donald Trump lied?

I'm amazed. And the most-excellent Washington Post just figured it out. Great journalism, there.


(sarcasm, if needed)

[NCTraveler]

2. It is good that they are documenting his lies.

Considering the coverage he got during the primaries it is not a given.

[PJMcK]

3. Yeah, you're right

Of course you're correct, NCTraveler. I'm just so disgusted that the news media have failed our democracy for so long that I couldn't resist the snarkiness that sprang from my keyboard.

Enjoy your day!

[NCTraveler]

4. "failed our democracy for so long"

They are a national embarrassment and one of our biggest problems. I truly mean that.

Have a good day as well.

[yeoman6987]

5. He gave a bunch from the celebrity apprentice

That took me 2 seconds. He's a dog but I hate lying from anyone.

[Gothmog]

6. Don the Con only cares about one charity-himself

[OnDoutside]

7. Trump and Gadaffi ..... that's interesting

When Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi visited New York in 2009, Trump rented him space for a huge tent at an estate Trump owns north of the city. He said nothing about giving the proceeds to charity.

But two years later, Trump told a television interviewer, “I said when I did it, ‘I’m going to take Gaddafi’s money .?.?. and I’m going to give the money to charity,’ and that’s exactly what I did.”

BuzzFeed recently estimated Trump’s take from Gaddafi at $150,000. If Trump did donate the money, there is no public trace of it; Trump donated nothing that year to his own foundation. And this spring, Trump seemed to have forgotten his vow to give the money to charity: “I made a lot of money with Gaddafi, if you remember,” he told CBS.