Trump family aide says Trump Foundation $ is Donald's own $

[Sunny05]

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Check this out -- ultimately from Des Moine Register, via Talking Points Memo (w/ its own link to original):

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-life

Josh Marshall makes good points in this. The aide is around the trumps a lot ...

[Brother Buzz]

1. So it's more than just a mere slush fund, it's a money laundering enterprise

Or am I missing something?

[rateyes]

3. Yep. Classic money laundering. Trump is

a tax cheat.

[Sunny05]

6. You are spot on!

If her claims are even true (it's bad, illegal either way), then people who "owed them" put it into tax free entity. Then that was used for -- you know the story -- apparent bribes and personal expenditures.

Unbelievable.

[Brother Buzz]

14. What's unbelievable were Trump attacks on the Clinton Foundation just a month ago

I'm beginning to realize Trump, with his own skeletons in the closet, attempted to couch any mention of 'Foundations' from the dialog. Like most of his enterprises, he's failed miserably.

[rateyes]

2. Which begs the question: If it was to be paid

directly to him, did he pay taxes on it? Did he declare it as income? That person just admitted that Trump cheated on his taxes!!

[Sunny05]

8. Cute, eh?

[Princess Turandot]

10. And did the businesses who agreed to pay him this way...

knowingly aid him in this tax avoidance scheme? Like the McMahons, who donated $5 million to the foundation around the time that he had done some kind of appearance for them.

People are wondering, since the wrestling duo refused to speak with the WaPo reporter on the story last week. And the glorified ticket scalper, who's donated millions to his foundation, also wouldn't speak to him.

You couldn't make this up: A diligent investigative reporter find improper transactions in the Trump Fdn records.
Trump's spox defends/explains it by admitting to something that sounds like tax fraud, which is a crime. And which wouldn't actually make the Fdn spending any more kosher.

[Demsrule86]

22. And NBC too...kind of explains their behavior this political season. nt

[C_U_L8R]

4. Doh !!! Looks like those little hands got caught in the cookie jar

Cheater's gonna cheat. Grifter's gonna grift.
Trump's gonna Trump.

[Sunny05]

9. Yep. (nt)

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Yup,Con Job Bon and his Brats

got a real scam going don't they. It's called a Laundry Tax Avoidance Scheme.

[Sunny05]

7. Aha. We have an official name for it!

And for him. Like your Con Job Bon! I have been calling him Kim Jong Don (and MP, Kim Jon Ding Dong). But your "nick" captures it all. 😄

[politicaljunkie41910]

11. When this came out the other day, Trump responded in a tweet or something that the

"Donald Trump Foundation doesn't have a lot of accountants and people on staff. They are a small operation." Something tells me that when that guy whose investigating the foundation gets inside those books, he's going to find that there's no there There in the Trump Foundation and the family being the ignoramuses that they are, either didn't bother to educate themselves on what a Foundation is and isn't or that they did, but didn't care, and thought that no one would ever know that he was spending the charity's money as if the money was his, because HE COULD. And if his EGO hadn't forced him to run for POTUS, no one would be the wiser.

Gosh I hop he ends up prosecuted behind this. The Trump children probably all have their own foundations as well. I know Eric Trump has mentioned his having his own foundation. Like Daddy, they probably all have one to 'launder' money through to evade paying taxes. I hope they all rot.

[Sunny05]

12. Agree. Absolutely. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

13. I bet that accountant is the woman who plagiarized Michelle's speech for

Melanoma

what was her name?

[politicaljunkie41910]

17. Melanoma. That's funny.

[Sunny05]

18. Good one!

Oh, what a way to put it!
LMAO 😂

[pinboy3niner]

19. Meredith McIver

[Sunny05]

20. To make sure ...

I was LMAO over your connecting dots between two non-existent "people". Now I see the Melanoma. 😄

My signature line is written as it is for a reason!

[Gabi Hayes]

25. thanks! welcome to DU. and I can't wait to see which little

cog they pin this on, after stonewalling until they can't anymore

this is EXACTLY what they did over the plagiarizing

all those shills were over the top obnoxious in their ABSOLUTE denials of the plage

THEN, the about face, the insistence of dropping it, which the msm did IMMEDIATELY

this is exactly what will happen with this story, if it even gets that far

also, speaking of the plage.....I read the melanoma thing somewhere else

[Princess Turandot]

15. The foundation's 990s, the 501(c)s federal informational return, are prepared/signed by...

a Nassau Cty, NY based CPA firm. They should understand the rules regarding private foundations, and the rest of those pesky IRS regulations.

Although it's certainly possible that they did not look in great detail at checks being written to other charities, since those organizations are real.

[Wellstone ruled]

24. What a load of Horsesh*t.

Con Job has some of the Best Bean Counters and Lawyers in the U.S.. This Slug is just running a Tax avoidance scheme.

[Retrograde]

41. Why don't they "have a lot of accountants"?

Who's keeping track of the essentials, like donations, filing the required paperwork, auditing the books, etc.?

I'm on the board of an itty-bitty, teeny-tiny 501(c)3 organization. We don't have any accountants on staff (well, some of our members are retired accountants and they've occasionally volunteered their services when we need to prepare tax returns and other official paperwork), but our books are transparent and regularly audited - and this is an organization that in a good year shows a profit in the low thousands (like 2 or 3). We sometimes have problems getting donors to take receipts (we rarely get monetary donations of more than $10), but we offer them for both cash and goods. And when we need to, we pay our sales taxes on time. Now, I would suppose things might be more complicated for an organization the size of Trump's, but that's what CFOs are for (he does have one, right?)

I read the TPM piece. If this is the sort of advisor Trump picks for running a charitable foundation, deities help us if he gets anywhere near the Oval Office.

[frazzled]

16. Oy vey

Are they really that stupid, or do they think the rest of us are stupid and will believe this?

If this were legal, we'd all set up a family foundation and have everyone pay us directly into the foundation--no taxes on any money received!

This is criminal. When I said it was a slush fund the other day, I was underestimating the extent of the scam.

[Sunny05]

23. I've wondered the same.

Narcissists could be so arrogant that they stupidly think they could do whatever they want OR so arrogant to think the rest of us are actually more stupid than they are.

LMAO over the latter.

[Demsrule86]

21. I heard that.

So you get people to pay money owed to you into your 'charitable foundation' and avoid taxes. But you spend the money on personal expenses like settling lawsuits or maybe buying ugly pictures of yourself...tax-free money claimed as charitable contributions...no way that is legal. No wonder he won't release his taxes.

[KewlKat]

27. if he's been this creative on the foundation funds.........can you imagine

what is in those taxes?

No wonder he's audited all the time. Why has noone uncovered this before. Hope they Al Capone him fast!

FOLLOW THE MONEY! Works every time.

[Demsrule86]

35. It is shocking that this is just coming to light. nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

39. Assface had 16 primary opponents!

You would think at least one of them, or anyone on their staff, really, could have uncovered this information during their opposition research.

None of this "madness on parade" had to happen.

[Volaris]

43. That would require competency on their parts

It's why they wanted soooooo badly to run against a Clinton...oppores is already done, no heavy lift there.

Incompetence an Lazyness..GOP 2016.

[KewlKat]

26. if the aide knows what she's talking about, this is far worse than I thought

he's been scamming Uncle of income that should have been taxed and then the contributor is probably getting a "deduction" for their "donation" to drumpf. Is that what NBC did, donated in lieu of salary for the TV show? He's been giving speeches and receiving payment to the foundation, tax free.....been doing this since when? 2000 or so.............

L O C K H I M U P!!!

[Sunny05]

28. Amen

Even if the the aide was just asserting her own opinion -- if -- what he is doing spending the foundation money is illegal. But the aide is around the trumps a lot and would seem to know how they function. So you're right: Lock him up!

[KewlKat]

33. Eric has his own foundation as well. Daddy's foundation has even given his foundation

money. $50K from what I remember seeing. Wonder if he too get's contributions in lieu of taxable income to do with what ever...........maybe we should be looking at his.

One thing I did notice, when trying to find daddy's donation on his (Eric's) foundation income, Eric doesn't disclose his contributors.

[unblock]

29. tax evasion, plain and simple. this is at least one of the reasons he can't release his taxes.

[bullimiami]

30. Its far past time that every Trump family connected operation is carefully scrutinized.

They run their entire operation like gangsters.

If there is any justice they will be penniless and jailed.

[Thinkingabout]

31. This is the same thinking he used when he borrowed his brother's blocks when they were young and

when his brother ask for them to be returned he said he couldn't because he had glued them together. Once money was donated to the Trump Foundation then it becomes Trump's money to be used as "pay for play", he loves to play Pay for Play.

[Cracklin Charlie]

40. Especially with OPM

[UCmeNdc]

32. Trump is out of control.

Can anyone control this monster?

[KewlKat]

34. any wonder that he loves OPM!!!!

hope they make an ad out of that with the evidence that's been discovered.

[Sunny05]

36. Thinking back to Fahrenthold's reporting ...

it's no wonder that Trump offered to settle some cases by donating to charity. He knew damned well that the payment alone, sitting there on the tax form w/ no reference to its legal case settlement origins, would look normal to an IRS agent.

[KewlKat]

44. Very true. Now, how many other "settlements" has he had where the negotiations

or art of the deal allow him to make contributions to charity? Doubtful they are all from NY? Is he sued beyond NY boundaries or would they always be in NY?

Now how can we get a list of his cases that were settled..............he knew what he was doing was illegal, thus the charade to hide it - donate my salaries to me, then flip them to another, hiding the tax savings. I think the kids aide will regret the day she spoke exposing this scam.

Hope we hear more of this story and perhaps catch her saying this on tape for future court actions.

[Sunny05]

45. Ooohhh, good points ...

I so hope more of this comes out.

[madaboutharry]

37. No wonder David Fahrenthold can't find any contributions except one

made years ago for $10.000. The Trumps used the foundation as their private ATM.

This is not complicated, it can be explained in simple terms that the public can understand. This is the exact thing, a rich man running a money laundering con, that pisses people off.

What is galling is the way Trump denigrates the Clinton Foundation and says that the Clintons used it to enrich themselves. What an example of projection.

If this is true, I hope he ends up in prison.

[Sunny05]

38. Amen to your every thought. (n/t)