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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
In new blow to campaign, Trump's foundation ordered to halt fundraising
For Trump, the cease-and-desist order was the latest in a series of blows that has sent his campaign reeling. The New York businessman and his aides spent much of the weekend pushing back against suggestions that he may not have paid U.S. federal income taxes for almost 20 years.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office said the Donald J. Trump Foundation was violating a state law requiring charitable organizations that solicit outside donations to register with the office's Charities Bureau.
The order followed a series of reports in The Washington Post that suggested improprieties by the foundation, including using its funds to settle legal disputes involving Trump businesses.
"The failure immediately to discontinue solicitation and to file information and reports required under Article 7-A with the Charities Bureau shall be deemed to be a continuing fraud upon the people of the state of New York," according to a letter dated on Friday that the office posted online on Monday.
Trump's campaign has suggested that the probe launched by Schneiderman, a Democrat, was politically motivated.
While again putting Trump's campaign on the defensive, the order could also undercut his efforts to make the Clinton Foundation, the family charity of Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton, a primary target in his campaign against her.
Trump has sought to paint the Clinton Foundation as a "pay-to-play" operation under which the former secretary of state and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, rewarded big donors to the foundation with access.
The scrutiny of the Trump Foundation came as the Republican candidate was dealing with a torrent of bad news, including his shaky performance in first debate with Clinton on Sept. 26 and the release by the New York Times of tax records that showed Trump taking an almost $1 billion loss in 1995 that may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.
In its series on the Trump Foundation, The Washington Post reported that Trump may have violated U.S. Internal Revenue Service rules against “self-dealing” by using foundation money to purchase two portraits of himself, which were then hung at his private golf clubs in New York and Florida.
The newspaper also said that Trump may have improperly used the foundation to settle legal disputes, including one at the his Palm Beach, Florida estate; diverted income from his business to the charity to avoid paying income tax; and donated foundation money to support Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican, who was considering launching an investigation into Trump University, Trump’s for-profit education venture. The foundation ended up paying a $2,500 fine to the IRS for that donation.
That's the third time the NY Trump Foundation story has been posted here today (I was the first) and no one's had anything else to comment on it. :P
Re: Wikileaks - at one point they might have been a respectable cause. They were supposed to be a resource that any journalist with sensitive info in repressive government could contribute to. Their credibility has plummeted downhill since, particularly since they are indistinguishable from a Russian infowar front at the moment.
Also, Beary, if you hang out long enough here you'll find that some of us have differing views on the merits of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. But they did also make mistakes in the process, that much I'll agree with.
So, I'm now convinced one of two things.
A)Trump genuinely wants to bang Ivanka
or
B)They've already done the deed it at some point in the past and it's just something they'll take to the grave
I really, really, REALLY wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but too many things just don't add up for it to NOT be anything other than the above two. For the sake of my sanity I hope it's just A)
New Survey coming this weekend!Elle: I see.
Trump's weirdness towards his own biological daughter is super creepy and gross. I once read a comment that said it's the closest he can come to fucking himself without being gay. :/
Why his weirdness towards his own biological daughter hasn't outright killed his campaign yet says something, and it's not good.
It does seem that Tiffany is The Un-Favorite. I wonder why that is...
edited 4th Oct '16 12:44:16 AM by BearyScary
Do not obey in advance.It might be due to how Ivanka is probably the smartest of his kids. The idea to market the Trump name all over the place in exchange for royalties was rumored to be her idea, along with convincing her dad to fire one of the campaign managers, amongst other things. So it might be a bizarre sense of pride that he shows by oogling her.
*glances at Wikileaks disclosures of Clinton campaign things other than water cooler chat transcripts*
Yeah, no.
Getting Alex Jones riled up enough to call Assange a Clinton plant was gold, though.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotA Washington Post journalist's story on the ADL struck a nerve with Trump's online base
.

Well, Wikileaks and Assange may have once done so, then everything changed when the FSB threatened to "destroy" Wikileaks when the latter threatened to spill dirt on the Kremlin
.
Some pretty... interesting things started happening afterwards. An RT show, Assange's personal political views and that of Wikileaks starting to line up with Kremlin policy, "Run to Russia Snowden, it'll be fine" and an FSB security
detail
at the Ecuador embassy.
He went from documenting Russian active measures to being one.
edited 3rd Oct '16 10:02:50 PM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot