How Do You Run a Charity Without Contributions?
Donald Trump is fixing to find out.
Washington (CNN)New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered Donald Trump’s charity to immediately halt fundraising in the state, following reports that it had not submitted to routine audits mandated by the state, the office announced Monday.
Schneiderman sent notice Friday to the Trump Foundation, alerting that it broke state law when it raised more than $25,000 from outside donors without filing properly with the state. New York requires charities to conduct annual audits to solicit donations.
Trump says the investigation is political. Yeah, because all the investigations into Hillary Clinton aren’t political.
And not submitting to an audit of your charity is not political — it’s criminal.
Hey, I just flipped on the teevee on CNN and they were interviewing a guy on the street with sunglasses and a Donald Trump cap. The reporter asked him about Donald trump not paying taxes. He responded, “I can see how the media would misconstrue that and try to say Trump isn’t a good businessman, but Bill Clinton is a rapist. Go to inforwarsdotcom Bill Clinton is a rapist.” Then he just kept repeating Bill Clinton is a rapist over and over.
I just found out that he was taught to do that.
Good Lord, we will be rid of Donald Trump after November 8th, but these damn fools are here to stay.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
I’m confused. If Bill is a rapist, how come Donald has a rape trial coming up?
1I wish it were true that we’d be rid of The Orange One after Nov 8, but I fear that’s not how it will go. Not only will his loyal minions remain, but his smarmy smirk will haunt our dreams for a very long time.
2Next up, Alex Jones.
3After watching that video it’s easy to wonder how anybody could believe Alex Jones and people like him. A couple of stories back (The biggest and greatest tax evader of all time) Rhea@7 posted a link to a WaPo story that she and someone else could only read part of. I urge everyone who reads this comment to read that story. It is truly repugnant and you’ll probably feel like showering afterwards. But it’s the best thing I’ve seen so far toward explaining how someone can be sucked into this insanity.
4Trump will be the git that keeps on giving like our Sarah was until Trump crowded her off the stage.
And, no, git was not a typo. (See Urban Dictionary.)
5Here’s the link P.P. mentioned. Good luck getting past the early part where she says that Obama is gay, Michelle’s a man, and the two girls were stolen from parents who are looking for them. Yep.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/finally-someone-who-thinks-like-me/2016/10/01/c9b6f334-7f68-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html
Also, with less disgust and shorter, this column about Trump’s supporters working on gut (rather than brain) and resentment:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-all-about-the-heart-not-the-head-for-the-average-trump-supporter/2016/10/02/df61a56a-88b1-11e6-8a68-b4ce96c78e04_story.html
6Trump’s been operating his “charity” for his own benefit using his favorite resource: OPM. Other People’s Money.
Lock him up! Lock him up!
7Rhea – I do believe they have mis-titled that story. The average Trump supporter HAS no heart, so it would have to be “it ‘s all about the gut (or some other part of the lower anatomy) not the head for the below-average trump supporter”….or is that too snarky?
8Couldn’t get through the article. That poor delusional creature is obviously on drugs, won’t get rid of the dead eat boyfriend and blames everything on a black president. Poor deluded woman can’t see that trump wouldn’t give her a pot to pee in. He’d just kick her out of his way like roadkill.
9Finally, the chickens have started coming home to roost on the Big Orange. May there be far more unearthed, resulting in criminal prosecution.
10If I did vote with my gut, I’d still oppose Trump. He turns my stomach.
11Rhea: Thanks for both of those links. A lot. As repugnant as it is to come within baseball bat distance from the inside of a Trump supporters head, it’s important to know your opponent ( as much as I hate ’em sometimes I won’t call ’em enemies. The modern day Joseph Goebbels,’ would be delighted. Getting ideas from anyone other than the approved list of douchebags terrifies them ). My brother in law made the point months ago that, I think it was LBJ, who said voters don’t vote on facts and policy, they vote on emotion. So let’s think about how use that if or when we talk to one. Chances are slim we’ll change the mind of a core Donnie supporters. But they might be standing next to an undecided who would never here the voice of reason otherwise. My biggest talking point will be that the REAL elites are folks like Charles and David Koch and people like them.
12Holy Wizards of Oz. When the Drumpf supporters aren’t busy imagining themselves as grand wizards of the KKK, they’re on the yellow brick road proving they are heartless, brainless and without courage. And, fwiw, Sam Brownbeck is no Toto. Much like Mike Pence, Sam doesn’t rise to the level of a dog’s post kibble deposit.
😀 The VP debate should be entertaining, if one enjoys bloody obliteration.
13PKM, you get the euphemism award for “post kibble deposit”.
14How nicely put. And it succinctly sums up the substance coming out of Drumpf and his surrogates. Hold-your-nose worthy.
I keep wondering if anyone anywhere can come up with one story of Trump doing something for another human being that did not benefit him or his family. Just one. I have never read or heard of one.
15maryelle, speaking of Donnie and his surrogates, I can only say that “legal” doesn’t mean what they think it means.
Seriously, if all were copacetic with Donnie’s business ‘genius’ and his personal tax returns are ‘legal’ as they claim, then why is it Donnie is being audited and has been a subject of audit nearly every time he submits his pile of compost returns?
Donnie doesn’t want to submit his returns for our perusal. Fine. I accept substitutions. In lieu of his returns for the past ten years, Donnie can present his revised post audit returns and the penalties assessed by the IRS. Then let Donnie and/or his surrogates return to parse “legal.”
AliceBeth, Donnie’s idea of community service is having his limo parked in a crosswalk barring pedestrian passage. That saves little old ladies from potentially being run over by errant cabs. And, maybe hanging his portrait is a defense against the Zika bearing mosquitoes?
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