Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?

April 11, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Donald Trump says it’s not true that he never donates to charity.  He says he donated $102 million in the past five years and produced 93 pages of names, dates and amounts to prove it.

 

But, in that massive list, one thing was missing.

Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of Trump’s own money.

They were donations from The Trump Foundation.  Donald Trump does not donate to the Trump Foundation.

“He’s using [the foundation] as a kind of checkbook, with other people’s money,” Leslie Lenkow­sky, a faculty member at Indiana University’s school of philanthropy, said after The Post described the recipients of the Trump Foundation’s gifts.

And not all the donations were to charities unless, of course, Serena Williams just became a charity.  And some guy named Brian.

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And then there were the sneaky transactions.

In 2010, a man named Martin Greenberg was playing in a charity tournament at Trump’s course in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. A $1 million prize was offered to anybody who got a hole in one.

Greenberg did. But then, hours later, he was called back. The rules said the hole-in-one shot had to go 150 yards. But, according to court documents, Trump’s course had made the hole too short.

And even with all this baggage, he’s still a better candidate than Ted Cruz.

 

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