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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks past the guns of the USS
Iowa after speaking on the battleship in San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif., United
States Sept. 15, 2015. Photo by Lucy
Nicholson/Reuters
Caught
fibbing, Trump scrambles to address veterans controversy
05/25/16
08:41 AM—Updated 05/25/16 09:07 PM
By
Steve Benen
In a
normal year, in a normal party, with a normal candidate, it would be the kind
of controversy that effectively kills a presidential candidate’s chances of
success. In January, Donald Trump skipped a Republican debate in order to host
a fundraiser for veterans. He boasted at the time that he’d raised $6 million
for vets – which led to a related boast that Trump contributed $1 million out
of his own pocket.
The Washington Post reported this week that
Trump’s claims simply weren’t true. He did not, for example, raise $6 million.
And what about the $1 million check the Republican bragged about? His campaign
manager insisted this week that Trump did make the contribution.
Except,
that wasn’t true, either. The Post reported last night:
Almost
four months after promising $1 million of his own money to veterans’ causes,
Donald Trump moved to fulfill that pledge Monday evening – promising the entire
sum to a single charity as he came under intense media scrutiny.
The
check is apparently going to a group called the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement
Foundation, whose chairman received a call from Trump on Monday night, the day
the campaign controversy broke.
Let’s
put aside, for now, why the Trump campaign said he’d made a donation that did
not exist. Let’s instead ask why it took nearly four months for the candidate
to do what he claimed to have already done.
Plaintiffs
further assert factual
Trump’s
New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump’s Personal Foundation
Rather
than going directly to veterans groups, 100% of online donations on Trump's
pro-veterans site will go directly to Trump's personal foundation.
January
28, 2016 By The Federalist Staff
After
ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week’s Iowa
caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own
pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans. Trump even
set up a special website to solicit donations to help veterans.
“Honor
their valor,” the website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, states. “Donate now to help
our Veterans.”
The
website, which is nothing more than a single page with stock photos and a
credit card donation form, claims that “100% of your donations will go directly
to Veterans needs.”
There’s
only one problem: 100% of the money raised on the site goes directly to Donald
Trump’s personal non-profit foundation, according to a disclosure listed at the
bottom of the page.
“The
Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,” the
disclosure reads. “An email confirmation with a summary of your donation will
be sent to the email address provided above.”
Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump said he raised $6 million for veterans
groups at a January fundraiser. The Washington Post's accounting, based on interviews
with charities, only found $3.1 million in donations to veterans groups. In
addition, almost four months after promising $1 million of his own money to
veterans' causes, Trump moved to fulfill that pledge. (McKenna Ewen/The
Washington Post)
UPDATE:
On Tuesday afternoon, Trump told The Washington Post that he had made good on a
promise to give $1 million to veterans groups -- but he had only done it on
Monday night, under increasing media scrutiny. This post has been updated to
reflect new information from that interview.
Since
late Monday, Donald Trump has been using social media to denounce reporting
about a fundraiser he held in Iowa on Jan. 28, to benefit veterans' groups.
"Bad
publicity from the dishonest and disgusting media," Trump said on Twitter
last night. "Absolutely disgraceful" Trump said in a video posted on
Instagram today.
Some
of that reporting has been done by The Washington Post, including a story
posted Friday, in which Trump's campaign manager said that the actual total
raised was less than the $6 million Trump claimed at the time.
As of
now, here's what we know -- and what we don't -- about the money Trump raised.
How
much money did Trump actually bring in?
We
don't know for certain.
Trump
said Tuesday that he'd raised about $5.5 million. That differed from the figure
given last week by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who told The Post
Trump had raised about $4.5 million. A better accounting will be possible in
the coming days:
Trump's campaign has promised that the last
money from the fundraiser will be given away to veterans' groups by Memorial
Day. When those outgoing donations are counted, we may know for sure what was
raised.
Why
did the total fall short of the $6 million that Trump claimed?
It's
still not clear.
Last
week, Lewandowski said the shortfall was the fault of Trump's own wealthy
acquaintances. He said some donors had pledged to give, but then backed out. He
did not say who.
But,
on Tuesday, Trump said that was wrong. In fact, he said, all the big donors had
followed through on their pledges -- though some came in late. Trump himself
could be counted as one of those late givers, since his $1 million pledge was
not fulfilled until this week.
Did
Trump give any money out of his own pocket?
Trump
says he did.
On
Monday night, Trump called the home of James Kallstrom, a retired FBI official
who is chairman of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. That
foundation, which helps the families of fallen Marines and federal
law-enforcement officers, has received donations in the past from Trump's
personal foundation.
Trump
said he would be making a $1 million donation, giving his entire gift to a
single charity. [Last week, Trump's campaign manager had said the money had
already been spent. That turned out not to be true.]
We
are still waiting for confirmation from the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement
Foundation that Trump's money has been transferred, and that the money indeed
came from Trump's personal fortune.
“The
foundation is thrilled, because the [money] is going to help a lot of people.
Especially the children," said Sue Kallstrom, the chairman's wife. The
gift was made after 8 p.m. on Monday night, after The Post had spent the day
making a public search on Twitter -- Trump's preferred social-media platform --
for any sign of a $1 million personal
gift.
How
much money has actually been given away to veterans' groups so far?
At
least $3.1 million, by The Post's most recent accounting. That number would
rise to $4.1 million, with the addition of Trump's personal gift.
The
Post's accounting of the other gifts has relied on reports from the veterans'
groups themselves, and from information provided in early March by the Trump
campaign. When The Post showed this accounting to Lewandowski last week, he
said, "You’ve got a pretty good handle on a lot of the money that’s been
pretty distributed."
Some
of this $3.1 million was given directly to veterans' charities by other donors
who were inspired by Trump. In some cases, big donors sent their money to the
Donald J. Trump Foundation, which passed the money on. In all, 28 charities
received money.
The
Post has asked the Trump campaign repeatedly for the amount of money still
remaining to be given away. That number has not been provided.
Trump
on skipping debate: 'I did the right thing'
While
campaigning in Nashua, N.H., Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
says he did the "right thing" when he did not join Thursday night's
debate. Instead of attending the seventh Republican debate, Trump held an event
across town for U.S. military veterans. (Reuters)
Are
these charities chosen by Trump legitimate?
By
all appearances, yes. The recipients included large, well-known organizations
such as the Disabled American Veterans charity and the Marine Corps-Law
Enforcement Foundation, as well as small charities that do things such as train
service dogs to help disabled veterans.
One
group identified as a recipient of the money -- Projects for Patriots, an
Iowa-based group that refits houses for disabled vets -- said it has not
received its money yet, because it still needs to be officially certified as a
charity by the Internal Revenue Service.
What
will happen to the rest of the money?
It
will be given away by Monday -- Memorial Day -- Lewandowski told CBS.
Lewandowski
earlier told The Post that the Trump campaign identified "probably two
dozen or more" charities that would get the money, in amounts ranging from
$20,000 to $100,000.
On
Tuesday, a veterans' charity in Boston reported receiving a phone call from the
Trump campaign, asking for its tax ID number. The understanding was that some
kind of gift would follow.
One
of the red flags was Trump, listed as president of the foundation (children
Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Trump Jr. are directors), handing out Trump Foundation
checks to veterans groups at campaign rallies earlier this year. "A
501(c)(3), like the Trump Foundation, is strictly prohibited from engaging in
political activity," said CREW spokesman Jordan Libowitz.
Trump
used his foundation to handle donations he raised during an event to protest a
Fox News presidential debate he'd bowed out of, and the veteran charities were
at Trump's campaign rallies to pick up the Trump Foundation checks. "It
raises serious questions when you make a charity part of your campaign
event," says Larry Noble, general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center.
"It could create legal problems for both the campaign and the charity.”
Plaintiffs
Respectfully assert before the Honorable Court Justice The biggest problem is
(The) Negro race is 1000% exclusive from The Knight of The Klu Klux Klansmen
and all Trump involve in rioting and HATE directed to the Negro Veteran’s
Plaintiffs herein further
Chief
Defendant “Trump Sr. and Trump Jr. Foundations are set up Frauds to funnel,
laundry money into a Home grown Terrorist Group and the extension of the
International Cartel of the (KKK) now being involved directly and indirectly
with (ISIS) and Trump charity $25,000 donation from the foundation — which
appears to have no dedicated staff — sent to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
shortly before she dropped interest in a fraud lawsuit against Trump
University.
Which
“Millions” was scuttled from after Fraud of The Plaintiff(s) Negro Veterans to
obtain all such proceeds in the first place, which this scheme as stated: being
involved with
Gregg
Abbott being Forevermore official High ranking “Card Member” of The Royal
Knight of The Klu Klux Klansmen proving scheme trick, fraud, looting as “Rebel
Army War Chest funds“(RICO) bribe, to hide in excess of $2.6 Million
CREW
has filed a complaint with the IRS about that donation; Trump campaign
spokeswoman Hope Hicks called it a mistake and blamed the failure to report the
donation on a "series of unfortunate coincidences and errors." Philip
Hackney, a former IRS chief counsel, told The Daily Beast that the Bondi
donation itself is enough to launch an investigation, but says he doesn't think
the IRS will touch it.
"I think it's dangerous, particularly
politically for them right now, to audit in this realm," he said.
"That bothers me, given what I see in this particular case, but I don't
know that the IRS has another choice in some ways." You can read more at
The Daily Beast. —Peter Weber
The
Associated Press reports that Donald Trump allegedly donated $35,000 to Texas
Governor Greg Abbott’s 2012 gubernatorial campaign after then-Texas Attorney
General Abbott dropped the state’s case against Trump University.
As
Texas’ AG, Abbott’s office had opened a civil investigation into Trump U’s
“possibly deceptive trade practices” in the state, but agreed to quietly drop
the case after the organization agreed to leave Texas.
Abbott’s
office built a $5.4 million settlement case against Trump’s organization for
duping Texan Trump U students out of $2.6 million, but the case was never
filed.
John
Owens, former deputy director of Abbott’s Consumer Protection Division, alleges
the decision was purely political that left Texas consumers “high and dry” with
no recourse:
Plaintiffs
assert from 2010 this Fraud of Funding (KKK) grew in Excess alone just in the
State of Texas $2.8 Million all cover up for a simple $35,000 bribe but the
magnitude of additional notwithstanding the United States of America Honorable
Court Justice Thee “Mexican” and the MIA (RICO) nature surrounding well
established “Prima Facial Tort Grand High scamming in years alone in
“New
York” scamming funneling, money laundering, terrorist dealing as being a Texas’
AG, Abbott’s office
“Greg Abbott” Forevermore
official High ranking “Card Member”
of The Royal Knight of The Klu Klux
Klansmen proving scheme trick, fraud, looting as “Rebel Army War Chest funds in
excess alone $40 Million (KKK) from “New York” and as claimed by “Slave Negro
Pro Se Plaintiff herein funding since 2009 for Chief Defendant Donald John
Trump and Donald John Trump Jr. (KKK) front up”, cover and or using with the
same intent to install “terror” in (USA) as to be known as
(ISIS)
slush funding (RICO) monetary scheme of thing involving USA Trump Foundation(s)
collectively Donald and Eric” aid and abetting
the enemy in a conflict of hostile aggression against “United States of America
and NATO
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