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Not a great showing for Donald Trump and his family this Monday. First, it turns out that two of Trump’s children can’t vote for him in the New York primary because they didn’t change their party affiliation in time. Now, it turns out that despite having a philanthropic fund and everything, Trump hasn’t actually donated any money through it in five years.
The Washington Post combed through the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s tax filings from 2009 to 2014, and found that the candidate has not given any of his own money to it within those last five years.
Trump has claimed throughout his campaign that he has given more than $102 million in donations in that period of time. You can see a list of beneficiaries here. WaPo found that most of these contributions were actually free rounds of golf, and that the most valuable donations were mainly “land-conservation agreements to forgo development rights on property Trump owns.”
And that’s not all:
In addition, many of the gifts on the list came from the charity that bears his name, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which didn’t receive a personal check from Trump from 2009 through 2014, according to the most recent public tax filings. Its work is largely funded by others, although Trump decides where the gifts go.
Some beneficiaries on the list are not charities at all: They included clients, other businesses and tennis superstar Serena Williams.
The Trump Foundation also gave money to well-connected people who could help with the mogul’s presidential bid.
(via Washington Post)
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Donald Trump: “That’s totally unfair of you, UPROXX. Why are you treating me so unfairly? You are a bunch of losers! Wait, I never heard of you, you third rate reporters! What you failed to accurately report is that on many many occasions over the last five years I THOUGHT about donating some money to charity. I CONSIDERED it. I CONSIDERED it. Why didn’t you losers report that?? I will own you losers…no wait, I will send Cory Lewendowski to visit you losers, yeah Cory’s very charitable and will donate lots and lots of knuckle-sandwiches to all you losers!”
“looosah”
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Donating to clients and Serena Williams how nice of him.
I think the Celebrity Apprentice raised like 15 million all for charities but don’t lynch me
That wasn’t Drumpf’s money, it was NBC’s.
And I’m sure they would have raised every dime of it had Carly Fiorina been host of The Apprentice…
Maybe not Fiorina, but I’m quite sure Arnold will be just as successful, if not more.
How much is Uproxx giving to charity again? And how much of that money is Phoenix Tso directly donating?
Of course, there’s no fucking way in hell Trump could have donated to charities other than his own. Nope. If he didn’t write a check to his own foundation, he doesn’t do anything charitable….
I hate this idiot and much of what he stands for, but I hate usually being the only one who isn’t such a blinded hypocritical libtard that I can actually use my brain before degrading a political candidate online…
How many billions of dollars does Uproxx, or the author have? I would assume none–they don’t seem to get quite enough views to pull the money that Trump is.
Now, here’s where the “libtard hypocrisy” becomes a little more relevant to who he is a leader. Guess what? Republicans, who believe in small government, constantly tout that people should give to charities with their money and not be forced to have taxes taken away from them to give to the less fortunate. If he doesn’t donate to charities at all, that either shows that that kind of logic simply doesn’t play through in reality, or at least that Trump doesn’t give a flying crap about helping people. And that, no matter what side of the aisle he’s on, isn’t great for anyone wanting to be President.
I don’t disagree, however being hypocritical about it is no way to attempt serious (or tongue in cheek) political critique. We can’t even bring up Clinton’s role in the tragedy in Benghazi or her secret server with classified info, but when Trump doesn’t give to his own charity (this doesn’t discuss the charities he may or may not actually give to) you’re allowed to flip out. Trump drives you nuts because you know he can beat your fragile candidate with wavering liberal values, just like he drives me nuts because I know he can (and likely has) beaten any candidate with actual conservative values (and our second choice is a shitbird…).
@Alaskan Thunderfunk Woven Digital who owns Uproxx has plenty of money and I can’t find anything about their charitable contributions.
If it’s true that whomever owns Uproxx are uncharitable dicks, then fuck them. But still, fuck Trump.
You’d think if ya planned on running for President of America you’d write a few checks to some sick kids or some shit.
I don’t fault him for not donating money as much as I fault him for not seeing around this corner.