Donald Trump Sr, as well as children Jr., Eric, and Ivanka were ordered to pay a $2M fine to several charities to settle frauds committed by the Trump Foundation.
It is easy to imagine how big this story would have been had it been a judgment against any prior President. But under Trump it barely made the front page and it will only survive as an independent topic here for a few hours until the moderators push it into their ever expanding “Trivial Pursuit” section for burying crimes by the President.
When Trump took office there was a lot of punditry about how the inspirational aspects of the office and the interventions of mainstream Republicans would turn Trump into a mainstream President. That has not happened. Instead, Trump’s standards of behavior – both his lack of business ethics and his denigration of opponents have become an acceptable standard for Trump’s supporters.
How does anyone square defrauding charities with making American great. Do Trump supporters think defrauding charities is acceptable… or is it just the cost you are willing to play to allow Mitch McConnell to pack the courts?
This is good news. One small foundation exposed for illegal activities and another huge one to go. If Trump had to pay $2M, can you imagine what it will cost the Clintons…or is that different?
The first difference is that the Trump Foundation kept its financial records secret (no surprise there). The Clinton Foundation’s tax filings are available on their website, as are the reports from the several agencies that rate foundations all of which give the Clinton Foundation top marks.
So get off your talking points and do some research and you’ll see why the cost to the Clintons is not going to be as large as the cost to the Trumps.
Foundations do provide tax relief, positive publicity for those who set them up and some sense of satisfaction to those same people. But they also provide funding for many worthwhile things
But since Trump used the foundation rules in a corrupt fashion, then all foundations must be bad. This is not making America great; this is making America awful.
Did you swallow that whole or did you notice the pattern of large contributors getting meetings with her as SoS?
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.