| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral 18:37 - Jun 14 with 8123 views | Shaky |
Trump Foundation, Accused of Sweeping Violations, Is Sued by New York Attorney General
By Danny Hakim
NYT, June 14, 2018
The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
The lawsuit, which seeks to dissolve the foundation and bar President Trump and three of his children from serving on nonprofit organizations, was an extraordinary rebuke of a sitting president. The attorney general also sent referral letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission for possible further action, adding to Mr. Trump’s extensive legal challenges.
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, culminated a nearly two-year investigation of Mr. Trump’s charity, which became a subject of scrutiny during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. While such foundations are supposed to be devoted to charitable activities, the petition asserts that Mr. Trump’s was often used to settle legal claims against his various businesses, even spending $10,000 on a portrait of Mr. Trump that was hung at one of his golf clubs.
The foundation was also used to curry political favor, the lawsuit asserts. During the 2016 race, the foundation became a virtual arm of Mr. Trump’s campaign, email traffic showed, with his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski directing its expenditures, even though such foundations are explicitly prohibited from political activities.
Mr. Trump immediately attacked the lawsuit, characterizing it in a Twitter post as an attempt by the “sleazy New York Democrats” to damage him by suing the foundation, vowing not to settle the case.
The $10,000 portrait was one of several examples of the foundation being used in “at least five self-dealing transactions,” according to the attorney general’s office, violating tax regulations that prohibit using nonprofit charities for private interests.
In 2007, to settle a dispute between the City of Palm Beach and Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the foundation paid $100,000 to the Fisher House Foundation, another charity.
In 2012, a man named Martin B. Greenberg sued the Trump National Golf Club after he made a hole-in-one at a fund-raising golf tournament that had promised to pay $1 million to golfers who aced the 13th hole, as he did. As part of a settlement, the charitable foundation paid $158,000 to a foundation run by Mr. Greenberg.
The foundation also paid $5,000 to one organization for “promotional space featuring Trump International Hotels,” and another $32,000 to satisfy a pledge made by a privately held entity controlled by Mr. Trump to a charitable land trust.
Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/nyregion/trump-foundation-lawsuit-attorney-ge |  |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 18:39 - Jun 14 with 6145 views | Darran |
Oh fuçk off Shaky you boring prick. |  |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 20:04 - Jun 14 with 6116 views | peenemunde |
Nothing will come from it, but it obviously gives Shaky some sort of comfort. |  | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 20:11 - Jun 14 with 6109 views | Highjack |
What we need is more copy and paste articles. |  |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:30 - Jun 14 with 6077 views | Shaky |
Hands up all those stupid enough to believe Trump is worth £10 billion and goes round getting his charity that he contributes nothing towards to pay for a hole in one competition at one of his crumby golf clubs where he tried to stiff the winner?
Or has to run a fraudulent university scam and is ordered to repay "students" $40 million in tuition fees?
PMSL as Pike would say.
Trump is a 2 bit con man. What a fcuking joke he is, as are the morons who support him especially in this country. You know who you are, suckers. | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:32 - Jun 14 with 6073 views | Shaky |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 20:11 - Jun 14 by Highjack |
What we need is more copy and paste articles. |
What you need by the sounds of things is a sixth form education. | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:35 - Jun 14 with 6068 views | hobo |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:30 - Jun 14 by Shaky |
Hands up all those stupid enough to believe Trump is worth £10 billion and goes round getting his charity that he contributes nothing towards to pay for a hole in one competition at one of his crumby golf clubs where he tried to stiff the winner?
Or has to run a fraudulent university scam and is ordered to repay "students" $40 million in tuition fees?
PMSL as Pike would say.
Trump is a 2 bit con man. What a fcuking joke he is, as are the morons who support him especially in this country. You know who you are, suckers. |
Dude, no-one here cares. Focus on the many criminals we have running the British Government instead, and you'd probably get more interest |  | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:03 - Jun 14 with 6048 views | Shaky |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:35 - Jun 14 by hobo |
Dude, no-one here cares. Focus on the many criminals we have running the British Government instead, and you'd probably get more interest |
If nobody cares it's lucky I am not putting much effort into pasting in a few articles.
It's really no bother at all, but thanks for your concern. | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:11 - Jun 14 with 6035 views | exiledclaseboy |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:03 - Jun 14 by Shaky |
If nobody cares it's lucky I am not putting much effort into pasting in a few articles.
It's really no bother at all, but thanks for your concern. |
Keep ‘em coming,Shakes. I enjoy them. |  |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:49 - Jun 14 with 6010 views | Humpty |
Me too Shakes.
Far more interesting than some self obsessed clown posting about himself.
Keep up the good work. |  | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:54 - Jun 14 with 6004 views | Ace_Jack |
If you don’t like them don’t read them. No ones forcing you to read or comment. |  | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 23:10 - Jun 14 with 5990 views | Humpty |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:54 - Jun 14 by Ace_Jack |
If you don’t like them don’t read them. No ones forcing you to read or comment. |
Pretty simple isn't it? | | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 23:11 - Jun 14 with 5984 views | omarjack |
Keep it up Shaky, don't listen to haters. |  |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 23:17 - Jun 14 with 5980 views | Darran |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 22:11 - Jun 14 by exiledclaseboy |
Keep ‘em coming,Shakes. I enjoy them. |
Yes and that’s fine but they can all go in one fuçking thread,twát. | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 00:50 - Jun 16 with 5869 views | dameedna |
Less scrolling. |  | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 08:55 - Jun 16 with 5834 views | Shaky |
Rick Wilson on fire:
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Donald Trump, the Insecure Pledge in the Dictatorship Fraternity
The authoritarian impulses would be sad, if they also weren’t so horrifying.
By Rick Wilson
Daily Beast, 06.15.18 2:03 PM ET
“He is the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
That was Donald Trump on Friday morning, former leader of the free world, praising murderous North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It set off a justified firestorm. Sure, his usual cheerleaders immediately jumped to, “He was joking! Why are you libtard sharia Soros Pizzagate Killary supporters so triggered?” or “Don’t you get it, man? It’s 9th-dimensional quantum chess.”
Sorry, I’m all out of passes in the “He’s new at this” or “He’s joking” or “That’s just Trump being Trump” categories his enablers have gotten away with using for far too long. After the last week, Trump is clearly a man who puts the dick in dictator. He’s a fanboy of Putin, Kim, Duterte, and a dog’s breakfast of the worst examples of oppression, thuggery, and anti-Western values the globe has to offer.
Why is today’s statement so much more outrageous, so much more egregious than any of a host of other Trumpian excesses, deviations from American values, shit-talking lunacy, and post-truth verbal dysentery? Because this week, Trump’s love of authoritarians, dictatorships and his actions and words came together. Donald Trump first went to the G-7 to wreck the proceedings with a combination of insult-comic schtick, diplomatic demolition derby, Putin cheerleading, and giant-toddler petulance.
He followed that with the Singapore Shitshow. It was a monstrous reality TV event, as was intended. But it left our putative allies wondering at the new Axis of Assholes Trump has joined–the CRANK: China, Russia, America and North Korea. By the end, it didn’t feel like he was after denuclearization but management tips from the portly little thug Kim.
For the American president to normalize, excuse, and ally himself with the worst of the world's bad actors while insulting, degrading, and destroying our allies and alliances would be appalling in any circumstance. The fact that Trump acts like a bumbling, eager fraternity pledge, desperate to join Phi Sigma Dictator makes it all the worse.
Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses have never exactly been a state secret. The entire Trump leadership oeuvre is a grotesque, bubbling slurry of reality TV star egomania and crap-tier nationalist nostrums that sound like Pat Buchanan and Lyndon LaRouche had a love child. Barely contained racial animus and a will to power is what resembles the real heroes of Trump's blisteringly awful mental and moral landscape.
We know from whence some of this impulse came. A gloriously illiterate cretin with a reading level routinely bested by simple, non-digital household appliances and talented flatworms on his best days, Trump’s interior intellectual life has never been, well, visible without the use of highly sensitive lab equipment. Roy Cohn’s tutelage, his father’s racial beliefs, and his indifferent education all contributed to the creature he is today. Trump’s bedside reading list was, according to his first wife, a collection of Adolf Hitler’s speeches. As they say, you've got to give the kids something they're interested in to make reading special.
Trump's style from the beginning was authoritarian-chic; bossy, needy, insufferable, and centered on the bright, hot star in the center of the stage. Trump was never a man running as a servant of the people; he was an avatar for their darkest, most vengeful, most petty grievances and imagined slights from a catalog of monsters from the Fox News scare closet. He wasn’t a leader; he was an avenger. He played an old tune from the authoritarian songbook: pose as the one man who will the avenge the Dolchstoßlegende committed against MAGAmerica by the perfidious Others, whether they be Mexicans, Chinese, Jews, Muslims, RINOs, the Establishment, or the literate.
In office, he adopted more than even the usual trappings of the Imperial Presidency, right down to the Royal Family serving in positions of influence. His staff engaged in behavior toward Trump that treated him not as a President, but as a king. It started before the White House, with his dictator-chic interior design sensibility striking every wrong chord, a trainwreck of Saddam and Liberace set loose with too much gold leaf, a glue gun, and a half-pound of cocaine.
Before his inauguration, Trump requested a massive, Soviet-style military parade and salute in his honor. He has consistently returned to this particular piece of Maximum Leader tableau vivant over and over again, hoping by some magical associative property of the heroism and skill of our men and women in uniform to somehow become something more than a five-time draft dodging chickenhawk.
Trumpian language, like that of so many actual and wannabe-strongmen, is always overwrought, hyperbolic, and self-aggrandizing. Listen to Trump’s language or that of his surrogates and staffers, and it’s always the biggest, best, first, only. All his actions are perfect, all his thoughts are genius, all his ideas are born fully formed and intellectually unassailable. He also hits a hole-in-one every time. Oh, wait. That’s the ex-dictator father of his new bestie Kim Jong Un.
The disregard for truth is also another hallmark. No one conspired with Russia. The harvest was amazing. There are no children in cages. We built more tractors than ever due to the Stakhanovite workers’ determination to exceed the Five Year Plan. The Trump family charity isn’t a criminal enterprise, but rather a source of hope for millions. Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort fetched coffee, at best.
Every authoritarian hellhole–pardon me, shithole–needs a state-run media to salute the Father of the Nation for exceeding the Five Year Plan’s Beet Harvest totals, or to praise the construction of the 3,000-mile, 500-foot tall pure-titanium Glorious All-Peoples Border Wall. State-run media must offer not only praise for His Umber Majesty but also scourge and punish any apostates. The surreal outing when a Fox News host bot demanded Marco Rubio retract his critique of Kim Jong Un because it might reflect badly on Donald Trump was one of those, “Screw it, the Westworld robots are loose, and it’s only a matter of time before they get us all” moments.
The constellation of talk radio, Fox, Infowars, Breitbart (It’s English for “Der Sturmer”), devote every moment of bandwidth not spent fellating Trump to punishing and pursuing his critics. Sean Haw Haw of Fox News spends his nightly 43 minutes of airtime between commercials for catheters, reverse mortgages, stairlift, and survival food screaming into the camera like a turgid ham with a series of denunciations that would make Beria lean back and say, “Oh, easy there, tovarish.” Judge Jeanine Pirro needs only a pink hanbok to rival North Korea’s Ri Chun-hee for paint-peeling agitprop in service to Kim Jong Don.
Authoritarian states also require the sick infrastructure of informers, and enforcers, petty zampolits, petty commissars and chekists do what they do; punish deviations from the constant worship, adulation, and praise of the Dear Leader. The White House is Hobbesian snakepit, and Republican politics has become filled with denunciations of any deviation from the True Faith.
When Republican National Committee Ronna Romney McDaniel tweeted, “Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake” it wasn’t just the new normal; it was a set of marching orders to monitor, report, purge and punish any variation from Trump juche.
The entire l’etat c’est Trump mindset of today’s Washington, D.C., is making Trump feel frisky, as the GOP continues to lay in the road like a dead animal, even as the buzzards of reality, conscience, and truth peck at them. Paul Ryan’s utter, final moral collapse was on full display this week; now he’s pretending he doesn’t even read the news about Trump’s behavior or that of his cabinet members. Trump is unbounded, unbridled, and unhinged.
Yes, some of Trump’s distractions are to cover the pendant doom of Paul Manafort, now rotting in jail for the foreseeable future, the Cohen trainwreck, and the failure of this weeks IG report to categorically demonstrate him is as pure as the driven snow and that his Russia ties were all Hillary’s fault. But much of this authoritarian statist flirtation is because Trump wills it so.
We are told to take Trump seriously, but not literally. I’m not sure we can afford to do that any longer.
The president of the United States of America is an office which imposes a vast, consequential responsibility on the person who holds it to represent America's values to the world. If those values are liberty, equality, freedom, the rule of law, and the Constitution, Trump is failing on every front. If they are the values of the thug, the tyrant, the bully, the circus freak third-world tinpot?
Then he’ll get his pledge pin any day now.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-the-insecure-pledge-in-the-dictatorsh | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 08:57 - Jun 16 with 5830 views | peenemunde |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 08:55 - Jun 16 by Shaky |
Rick Wilson on fire:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Donald Trump, the Insecure Pledge in the Dictatorship Fraternity
The authoritarian impulses would be sad, if they also weren’t so horrifying.
By Rick Wilson
Daily Beast, 06.15.18 2:03 PM ET
“He is the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
That was Donald Trump on Friday morning, former leader of the free world, praising murderous North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It set off a justified firestorm. Sure, his usual cheerleaders immediately jumped to, “He was joking! Why are you libtard sharia Soros Pizzagate Killary supporters so triggered?” or “Don’t you get it, man? It’s 9th-dimensional quantum chess.”
Sorry, I’m all out of passes in the “He’s new at this” or “He’s joking” or “That’s just Trump being Trump” categories his enablers have gotten away with using for far too long. After the last week, Trump is clearly a man who puts the dick in dictator. He’s a fanboy of Putin, Kim, Duterte, and a dog’s breakfast of the worst examples of oppression, thuggery, and anti-Western values the globe has to offer.
Why is today’s statement so much more outrageous, so much more egregious than any of a host of other Trumpian excesses, deviations from American values, shit-talking lunacy, and post-truth verbal dysentery? Because this week, Trump’s love of authoritarians, dictatorships and his actions and words came together. Donald Trump first went to the G-7 to wreck the proceedings with a combination of insult-comic schtick, diplomatic demolition derby, Putin cheerleading, and giant-toddler petulance.
He followed that with the Singapore Shitshow. It was a monstrous reality TV event, as was intended. But it left our putative allies wondering at the new Axis of Assholes Trump has joined–the CRANK: China, Russia, America and North Korea. By the end, it didn’t feel like he was after denuclearization but management tips from the portly little thug Kim.
For the American president to normalize, excuse, and ally himself with the worst of the world's bad actors while insulting, degrading, and destroying our allies and alliances would be appalling in any circumstance. The fact that Trump acts like a bumbling, eager fraternity pledge, desperate to join Phi Sigma Dictator makes it all the worse.
Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses have never exactly been a state secret. The entire Trump leadership oeuvre is a grotesque, bubbling slurry of reality TV star egomania and crap-tier nationalist nostrums that sound like Pat Buchanan and Lyndon LaRouche had a love child. Barely contained racial animus and a will to power is what resembles the real heroes of Trump's blisteringly awful mental and moral landscape.
We know from whence some of this impulse came. A gloriously illiterate cretin with a reading level routinely bested by simple, non-digital household appliances and talented flatworms on his best days, Trump’s interior intellectual life has never been, well, visible without the use of highly sensitive lab equipment. Roy Cohn’s tutelage, his father’s racial beliefs, and his indifferent education all contributed to the creature he is today. Trump’s bedside reading list was, according to his first wife, a collection of Adolf Hitler’s speeches. As they say, you've got to give the kids something they're interested in to make reading special.
Trump's style from the beginning was authoritarian-chic; bossy, needy, insufferable, and centered on the bright, hot star in the center of the stage. Trump was never a man running as a servant of the people; he was an avatar for their darkest, most vengeful, most petty grievances and imagined slights from a catalog of monsters from the Fox News scare closet. He wasn’t a leader; he was an avenger. He played an old tune from the authoritarian songbook: pose as the one man who will the avenge the Dolchstoßlegende committed against MAGAmerica by the perfidious Others, whether they be Mexicans, Chinese, Jews, Muslims, RINOs, the Establishment, or the literate.
In office, he adopted more than even the usual trappings of the Imperial Presidency, right down to the Royal Family serving in positions of influence. His staff engaged in behavior toward Trump that treated him not as a President, but as a king. It started before the White House, with his dictator-chic interior design sensibility striking every wrong chord, a trainwreck of Saddam and Liberace set loose with too much gold leaf, a glue gun, and a half-pound of cocaine.
Before his inauguration, Trump requested a massive, Soviet-style military parade and salute in his honor. He has consistently returned to this particular piece of Maximum Leader tableau vivant over and over again, hoping by some magical associative property of the heroism and skill of our men and women in uniform to somehow become something more than a five-time draft dodging chickenhawk.
Trumpian language, like that of so many actual and wannabe-strongmen, is always overwrought, hyperbolic, and self-aggrandizing. Listen to Trump’s language or that of his surrogates and staffers, and it’s always the biggest, best, first, only. All his actions are perfect, all his thoughts are genius, all his ideas are born fully formed and intellectually unassailable. He also hits a hole-in-one every time. Oh, wait. That’s the ex-dictator father of his new bestie Kim Jong Un.
The disregard for truth is also another hallmark. No one conspired with Russia. The harvest was amazing. There are no children in cages. We built more tractors than ever due to the Stakhanovite workers’ determination to exceed the Five Year Plan. The Trump family charity isn’t a criminal enterprise, but rather a source of hope for millions. Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort fetched coffee, at best.
Every authoritarian hellhole–pardon me, shithole–needs a state-run media to salute the Father of the Nation for exceeding the Five Year Plan’s Beet Harvest totals, or to praise the construction of the 3,000-mile, 500-foot tall pure-titanium Glorious All-Peoples Border Wall. State-run media must offer not only praise for His Umber Majesty but also scourge and punish any apostates. The surreal outing when a Fox News host bot demanded Marco Rubio retract his critique of Kim Jong Un because it might reflect badly on Donald Trump was one of those, “Screw it, the Westworld robots are loose, and it’s only a matter of time before they get us all” moments.
The constellation of talk radio, Fox, Infowars, Breitbart (It’s English for “Der Sturmer”), devote every moment of bandwidth not spent fellating Trump to punishing and pursuing his critics. Sean Haw Haw of Fox News spends his nightly 43 minutes of airtime between commercials for catheters, reverse mortgages, stairlift, and survival food screaming into the camera like a turgid ham with a series of denunciations that would make Beria lean back and say, “Oh, easy there, tovarish.” Judge Jeanine Pirro needs only a pink hanbok to rival North Korea’s Ri Chun-hee for paint-peeling agitprop in service to Kim Jong Don.
Authoritarian states also require the sick infrastructure of informers, and enforcers, petty zampolits, petty commissars and chekists do what they do; punish deviations from the constant worship, adulation, and praise of the Dear Leader. The White House is Hobbesian snakepit, and Republican politics has become filled with denunciations of any deviation from the True Faith.
When Republican National Committee Ronna Romney McDaniel tweeted, “Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake” it wasn’t just the new normal; it was a set of marching orders to monitor, report, purge and punish any variation from Trump juche.
The entire l’etat c’est Trump mindset of today’s Washington, D.C., is making Trump feel frisky, as the GOP continues to lay in the road like a dead animal, even as the buzzards of reality, conscience, and truth peck at them. Paul Ryan’s utter, final moral collapse was on full display this week; now he’s pretending he doesn’t even read the news about Trump’s behavior or that of his cabinet members. Trump is unbounded, unbridled, and unhinged.
Yes, some of Trump’s distractions are to cover the pendant doom of Paul Manafort, now rotting in jail for the foreseeable future, the Cohen trainwreck, and the failure of this weeks IG report to categorically demonstrate him is as pure as the driven snow and that his Russia ties were all Hillary’s fault. But much of this authoritarian statist flirtation is because Trump wills it so.
We are told to take Trump seriously, but not literally. I’m not sure we can afford to do that any longer.
The president of the United States of America is an office which imposes a vast, consequential responsibility on the person who holds it to represent America's values to the world. If those values are liberty, equality, freedom, the rule of law, and the Constitution, Trump is failing on every front. If they are the values of the thug, the tyrant, the bully, the circus freak third-world tinpot?
Then he’ll get his pledge pin any day now.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-the-insecure-pledge-in-the-dictatorsh |
Less is more. | | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 11:32 - Jun 17 with 5758 views | Shaky |
New York’s Case Against Trump May Be Prophetic
Why the complaint involving the president’s foundation is a road map for Mueller.
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg, June 16, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT
The report released by the inspector general of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday painted a vivid picture of the past. It shows that in 2016, James Comey, then the FBI director, inexcusably broke the rules in advertising his department’s investigation into Hillary Clinton while simultaneously following the rules in keeping its investigation of Donald Trump under wraps.
Trump has already mischaracterized the report, in the way Trump routinely does. But it’s unclear, ultimately, how much all this history matters politically.
For a more prophetic vision of the future, you should read the complaint against Trump, his children and his foundation by New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood.
Why prophetic? Because it’s likely a preface to the report or complaint that special counsel Robert Mueller will bring. The alleged crimes described by Underwood are not similar to those being investigated by Mueller. But the behavior is.
One stumbling block to public understanding of the Mueller probe, in addition to a steady stream of propaganda and lies designed to undermine it, is that it’s hard for even a cynic to accept the premises of what is being investigated.
U.S. history simply doesn’t offer a lot of reference points for a major-party political candidate who so casually subverts the law and sells out the nation’s highest values. How many Richard Nixons are there?
To believe the accusations that Trump colluded with Russia, laundered vast amounts of money and/or put American foreign policy on the auction block in return for the enrichment of his family requires an awkward leap of faith. You have to believe this leader is both profoundly corrupt -- far more so than Nixon -- and staggeringly sloppy -- again more so than Nixon.
This is essentially the portrait that Underwood paints in the detailed accusations against the head of the Trump Foundation: that of a shady huckster who engages in “persistently illegal conduct” and is buffoonishly sloppy along the way.
To give credit where it’s due, the New York attorney general is building on the case built in 2016 by Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, whose search for legitimate charitable activity by Trump’s foundation consistently left the reporter comically empty-handed.
What Fahrenthold detailed was Trump’s utter disregard for the law in taking in tax-deductible contributions to his foundation and proceeding to spend the money on his personal and business needs.
New findings, for instance, show that the Trump Foundation’s largest-ever gift – $264,631 – was used to renovate a fountain outside the windows of Trump’s Plaza Hotel.
Its smallest-ever gift, for $7, was paid to the Boy Scouts in 1989, at a time when it cost $7 to register a new Scout. Trump’s oldest son was 11 at the time. Trump did not respond to a question about whether the money was paid to register him.
Take a moment to savor that last detail. A man claiming to be worth billions of dollars -- and who certainly flaunted the lifestyle -- appears to have illegally diverted $7 from a charitable foundation to pay his son’s Boy Scouts registration fee.
Trump’s foundation is organized “exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes either directly or by contributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code."
Instead, as Underwood’s complaint shows clearly, he used it to pay settlements incurred in business lawsuits and to advance his 2016 political campaign. The foundation took in millions in donations for veterans. His campaign then directed the foundation to issue checks to Iowa veterans groups in advance of the Iowa caucuses as he sought to curry political favor.
How does Underwood know campaign personnel were involved in spending decisions? Because the Trumpsters are so recklessly contemptuous of rules that they left a trail of this blatant violation of campaign-finance law on their emails. At least one email thread included Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski weighing in on where he wanted the foundation’s tax-deductible funds directed.
The foundation also made a $25,000 contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who subsequently determined that fraud charges against Trump’s university were not a proper matter for her office. The foundation listed the contribution as going to a Kansas nonprofit with the same name as Bondi’s political committee.
“The Foundation has no credible explanation for the false reporting of grant recipients to the IRS and the State of New York,” Underwood concluded.
Trump will likely claim he was uninvolved and unaware. But Underwood’s complaint has that covered, too.
Mr. Trump, who was the sole signatory on the Foundation's bank accounts, approved all grants and other disbursements from the Foundation. Accounting staff for the Trump Organization had responsibility for issuing checks from the Foundation, and issued the checks based solely on Mr. Trump's approval before presenting the checks to Mr. Trump for signature.
Indeed, the foundation’s board didn’t provide much of a check on Trump’s personal whims, owing to the fact that, in violation of the law, it “has not met since 1999 and does not oversee the activities of the Foundation in any way.”
It took the attorney general’s office months to investigate this narrow corner of the Trump universe — even though the evidence was lying around in plain sight. Mueller’s investigation is far broader and more consequential. His complaint may yet take a while. But it should be a doozy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2018-06-16/new-york-s-trump-lawsuit- | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 11:54 - Jun 17 with 5745 views | peenemunde |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 11:32 - Jun 17 by Shaky |
New York’s Case Against Trump May Be Prophetic
Why the complaint involving the president’s foundation is a road map for Mueller.
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg, June 16, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT
The report released by the inspector general of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday painted a vivid picture of the past. It shows that in 2016, James Comey, then the FBI director, inexcusably broke the rules in advertising his department’s investigation into Hillary Clinton while simultaneously following the rules in keeping its investigation of Donald Trump under wraps.
Trump has already mischaracterized the report, in the way Trump routinely does. But it’s unclear, ultimately, how much all this history matters politically.
For a more prophetic vision of the future, you should read the complaint against Trump, his children and his foundation by New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood.
Why prophetic? Because it’s likely a preface to the report or complaint that special counsel Robert Mueller will bring. The alleged crimes described by Underwood are not similar to those being investigated by Mueller. But the behavior is.
One stumbling block to public understanding of the Mueller probe, in addition to a steady stream of propaganda and lies designed to undermine it, is that it’s hard for even a cynic to accept the premises of what is being investigated.
U.S. history simply doesn’t offer a lot of reference points for a major-party political candidate who so casually subverts the law and sells out the nation’s highest values. How many Richard Nixons are there?
To believe the accusations that Trump colluded with Russia, laundered vast amounts of money and/or put American foreign policy on the auction block in return for the enrichment of his family requires an awkward leap of faith. You have to believe this leader is both profoundly corrupt -- far more so than Nixon -- and staggeringly sloppy -- again more so than Nixon.
This is essentially the portrait that Underwood paints in the detailed accusations against the head of the Trump Foundation: that of a shady huckster who engages in “persistently illegal conduct” and is buffoonishly sloppy along the way.
To give credit where it’s due, the New York attorney general is building on the case built in 2016 by Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, whose search for legitimate charitable activity by Trump’s foundation consistently left the reporter comically empty-handed.
What Fahrenthold detailed was Trump’s utter disregard for the law in taking in tax-deductible contributions to his foundation and proceeding to spend the money on his personal and business needs.
New findings, for instance, show that the Trump Foundation’s largest-ever gift – $264,631 – was used to renovate a fountain outside the windows of Trump’s Plaza Hotel.
Its smallest-ever gift, for $7, was paid to the Boy Scouts in 1989, at a time when it cost $7 to register a new Scout. Trump’s oldest son was 11 at the time. Trump did not respond to a question about whether the money was paid to register him.
Take a moment to savor that last detail. A man claiming to be worth billions of dollars -- and who certainly flaunted the lifestyle -- appears to have illegally diverted $7 from a charitable foundation to pay his son’s Boy Scouts registration fee.
Trump’s foundation is organized “exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes either directly or by contributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code."
Instead, as Underwood’s complaint shows clearly, he used it to pay settlements incurred in business lawsuits and to advance his 2016 political campaign. The foundation took in millions in donations for veterans. His campaign then directed the foundation to issue checks to Iowa veterans groups in advance of the Iowa caucuses as he sought to curry political favor.
How does Underwood know campaign personnel were involved in spending decisions? Because the Trumpsters are so recklessly contemptuous of rules that they left a trail of this blatant violation of campaign-finance law on their emails. At least one email thread included Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski weighing in on where he wanted the foundation’s tax-deductible funds directed.
The foundation also made a $25,000 contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who subsequently determined that fraud charges against Trump’s university were not a proper matter for her office. The foundation listed the contribution as going to a Kansas nonprofit with the same name as Bondi’s political committee.
“The Foundation has no credible explanation for the false reporting of grant recipients to the IRS and the State of New York,” Underwood concluded.
Trump will likely claim he was uninvolved and unaware. But Underwood’s complaint has that covered, too.
Mr. Trump, who was the sole signatory on the Foundation's bank accounts, approved all grants and other disbursements from the Foundation. Accounting staff for the Trump Organization had responsibility for issuing checks from the Foundation, and issued the checks based solely on Mr. Trump's approval before presenting the checks to Mr. Trump for signature.
Indeed, the foundation’s board didn’t provide much of a check on Trump’s personal whims, owing to the fact that, in violation of the law, it “has not met since 1999 and does not oversee the activities of the Foundation in any way.”
It took the attorney general’s office months to investigate this narrow corner of the Trump universe — even though the evidence was lying around in plain sight. Mueller’s investigation is far broader and more consequential. His complaint may yet take a while. But it should be a doozy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2018-06-16/new-york-s-trump-lawsuit- |
So when is Trump going to jail ? | | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 14:57 - Jun 17 with 5714 views | Shaky |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 11:54 - Jun 17 by peenemunde |
So when is Trump going to jail ? |
Hard to say, but Trump's campaign manager Paul Mananfort is in prison right now. | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 18:36 - Jun 17 with 5664 views | Badlands |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:30 - Jun 14 by Shaky |
Hands up all those stupid enough to believe Trump is worth £10 billion and goes round getting his charity that he contributes nothing towards to pay for a hole in one competition at one of his crumby golf clubs where he tried to stiff the winner?
Or has to run a fraudulent university scam and is ordered to repay "students" $40 million in tuition fees?
PMSL as Pike would say.
Trump is a 2 bit con man. What a fcuking joke he is, as are the morons who support him especially in this country. You know who you are, suckers. |
Yeah but he lets his own people shoot other people and calls it a right. He then insults every other country under the sun because they too have crime even if his crimlee country is the biggliest. |  |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 20:05 - Jun 17 with 5641 views | icecoldjack |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 21:30 - Jun 14 by Shaky |
Hands up all those stupid enough to believe Trump is worth £10 billion and goes round getting his charity that he contributes nothing towards to pay for a hole in one competition at one of his crumby golf clubs where he tried to stiff the winner?
Or has to run a fraudulent university scam and is ordered to repay "students" $40 million in tuition fees?
PMSL as Pike would say.
Trump is a 2 bit con man. What a fcuking joke he is, as are the morons who support him especially in this country. You know who you are, suckers. |
What have the Romans ever done for us eh? ... |  | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 06:26 - Jun 18 with 5584 views | peenemunde |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 14:57 - Jun 17 by Shaky |
Hard to say, but Trump's campaign manager Paul Mananfort is in prison right now. |
You are mad | | | |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 08:55 - Jun 18 with 5555 views | omarjack |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 06:26 - Jun 18 by peenemunde |
You are mad |
Mad? so Manafort is not in jail? so Manafort was not Trump's campaign chairman?
um..I guess just more CNN lies right? | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 10:16 - Jun 18 with 5541 views | Shaky |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 06:26 - Jun 18 by peenemunde |
You are mad |
Heckofajob, Penne, demonstrating to people what a bunch of stupid shits rabid right-wingers like you are. | |
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| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 14:43 - Jun 18 with 5503 views | A_Fans_Dad |
| Trump Foundation Sued by New York Attorney Generral on 08:55 - Jun 18 by omarjack |
Mad? so Manafort is not in jail? so Manafort was not Trump's campaign chairman?
um..I guess just more CNN lies right? |
Do you know what he is actually in jail for? |  | | |
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