Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems

the Trump foundation is a foundation that caters to everything Trump

 

who writes the checks .... Trump?

 

No, it does not. This is a straight up misappropriation of funds, and it is not a unique example in Trump world.

Of course, the only way to know if he reported it as income is to see his tax returns!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b

TL;DR - Trump used money from a Trust fund THAT OTHER PEOPLE PAID INTO to pay off his legal debts. It's now a verified fact. Draw whatever conclusions you want from it.

 

So a charity wrote a check to another charity? The horror!

 

I really wish you guys would learn the difference between the Trump Organization and Donald Trump. Donald didn't agree to do (*)(*)(*)(*). The Trump Organization agreed to donate to charity which if through its charitable arm.

Those entire article is stupid.

 

To pay off Trump's personal obligations. Had Trump paid those obligations themselves, his own Trust would have the same money it would; have before, and the other two trusts would have Trump's money.

You're basically okay with charity paying charity when Trump could pay himself and make it Charity and Charity.

 

Stop saying Trump. It's a corporation The Trump Organization. Trump was never (*)(*)(*)(*)ing sued!

 

In high society, if you are GUILTY, you give monies to charity, and all is forgiven. NO PAPER TRAIL. Same with no divulge agreements.

 

Smart move , saved him a quarter million.

 

This is something i've been thinking about. If this was illegal wouldn't it have come out well before this?This wasn't uncovered in emails, this stuff is public record.

The way I understand the lawsuits trump was suing the city for the flag pole and trump probably would have won.

In the other the guy didn't follow the rules of the competition and trump probably would have won.

The payments to me see like trump was making a gesture of good will. Trump admitted some culpability but said hey you are going to loose anyway, so I'll do this. So as to not have the plaintiff drag them selves through court to probably loose.

It seems like something like that could be discussed in a settlement.

I'd love to hear from a lawyer about this.

 

Assume for a moment that is true. He nonetheless used other people's money to pay the debt of his organization.

And this "Charity to Charity" excuse has to be the dumbest thing ever. You can do better. You do realize that had Trump paid the money out of his own pocket (or out of the Trump Organization's pocket) instead of out of the Trump Foundation's pocket, there would be an additional $100,000 to charity. But instead of satisfying his own (or the Trump Corporation's) obligation, he took money from one charity to pay another. So now Trump (or his corporation) has an extra $100,000 that should have gone to charity.

Seriously. I can't believe I have to explain this.

 

And the Clintons use the Clinton Foundation as their personal piggy bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

So if someone is personally fined and this person has control of a charity, you think that it will be okay if he makes a deal with the other party that he will transfer money from one charity to another charity if the personal fine is waived resulting in him not paying anything out of his personal accounts? That seems to be what happened

 

Yep, seems to have saved him personal money and used the charity account to make a deal. ie he used other peoples charity donated money to pay off some personal debts he had

 

Couple this with Trump attempting to rip off the vets for the four million and you have a pattern.

 

The problem for me is that a government agency agreed to waive a fine in exchange for a donation to a charity.

 

God forbid we have another flagpole. Trump should have told the "community" he was only going to fly the Black Lives Matter banner and he may have received a warmer welcome. Who knows, he may even got some support money from the tight fisted slush fund called the Clinton foundation.

 

Smart move?

Are you as shady as he is?

He gets caught trying to get over on somebody, and pays his fine with other people's money (breaking the law in the process).

And that's the kind of cheap larceny that you want in the White House? Talk about a low bar......

 

Yet another trash Trump thread , YÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN

 

I'm not assuming (*)(*)(*)(*). It's true. Leftists have been confusing Trump the man with the Trump Organization.

And legal settlement is a private contract between parties. It's perfectly legal to agree to have yo6r charity make a charitable donation.

York mistake on logic is confusing a settlement with a fine or a penalty. It's not.

 

Duplicate threads merged.

 

Yeah, but you don't get it b3cause like most liberals you know jack about law. A settlement is a private contract. The Trump Organization contractually agreed to make a donation which it did through its charitable subsidiary. Eve

 

It seems that the deal that the government agency agreed to was that Trump was to make the donation to charity through his personal (or business) account but he used the charity account to make the donation. Unless he repaid it through his accounts, he stole from the charity.

 

Smart move , saved him a quarter million.