Trump Golf Course Said It Gave Millions To Charity. Here's What The Numbers Say

[struggle4progress]

October 18, 20172:41 PM ET
TOM DREISBACH
EMILY SULLIVAN

... NPR has taken a closer look at the charitable-giving claims made by a Trump property, the Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles ...

As recently as this summer, the club declared on its website: "We are proud to have provided $5 million to the following charitable causes since our opening." It listed nearly 200 recipients.

For weeks, NPR's Embedded podcast and conflicts-of-interest team combed through that list to verify the assertions. NPR cross-referenced the golf club's website with a document that the Trump campaign gave to The Associated Press in 2015, detailing charitable gifts from 2010 to 2015. NPR also called and emailed dozens of organizations to find out whether they have a record of a donation from Trump National Golf Club, the Trump Organization or VH Property Corp., the LLC that technically owns the golf course.

That reporting suggests the club's donations have fallen well short of $5 million and are much closer to approximately $800,000 ...

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/18/558352411/a-trump-golf-course-said-it-gave-millions-to-charity-heres-what-the-numbers-say

[Doodley]

1. The golden rule - take whatever number Trump uses and divide by six.

Example: "I'm worth ten billion." Divide by six and you get about 1.7 billion.

[Bluepinky]

2. Then divide that by six, add 10 and multiply by .1 for the true value of his net worth.

[politicaljunkie41910]

3. During the campaign, there was a group that raised the issue that Trumps son Eric hosted a Golf

Tournament each year at Trump's club in Virginia (I believe) and the tournament was to benefit a children's hospital charity and the group could find no record of any donations anywhere near the amount the Trump family had claimed. So it's apparent that the apples don't fall far from the tree. They're all nothing but a bunch of grifters.