2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEric Trump ‘Charity’ Spent $880K at Family-Owned Golf Resorts
A wine industry association. A plastic surgeon gifting nose jobs to kids. An artist who painted a portrait of Donald Trump and a blue dog. Trump-owned golf resorts.
Those are some of the beneficiaries of the Eric Trump Foundation, an eponymous public charity headed by the Republican presidential nominees third-born. Though Eric Trumpthe executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, and one of his fathers top surrogates and closest political advisersrecently claimed his father had donated hundreds of thousands to his charity, the only available evidence seems to suggest payments, in fact, went the other way: the Eric Trump Foundation (ETF) paying hundreds of thousands over the last 10 years to host lavish fundraising events at Donald Trumps golf courses.
In promotional videos and press releases, ETF touts a 95 to 100 percent donation ratio and implies that by benefit of being a Trump, namesake properties are handed over for charity events at little or no cost. But according to a Daily Beast analysis of annual IRS reports and New York state financial disclosures from the charitys inception in 2007 to 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, ETF spent $881,779 on its annual Golf Invitational at Trump-owned clubs, a portion of which$100,000 in 2013 and $88,000 in 2014was reported as paid directly to a company of a family member of the Board of Directors. In other words, Donald Trump himself.
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WhiteTara
(29,711 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)had.
Since Fred Jr. was not a "killer", he was trashed by both dad and Donnie. He became an airline pilot, and the two of them ribbed him, "what's the difference between driving a bus."
I'm not even suggesting that Don the Con is decent in any way. I am suggesting that he is not as bad as his dad.
elias7
(3,999 posts)lock 'em up! lock 'em up! lock 'em up! lock 'em up!
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Just imagine 4 fucking years of this family being the face of America