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Happyhippychick

(8,379 posts)
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 01:52 PM Jun 2016

If you want to know true evil, look in here.

This is an excerpt from an article which demonstrates that Trump is not donating the profits of his business ventures to charity as he promises.
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-charity-lies_us_575b4094e4b00f97fba86ae1

This part caught my eye: "Trump also promised to donate the proceeds of his Trump Vodka to charity in 2005. Trump does not drink, and said his donation would honor his late brother, Freddy Trump, who died from complications of alcoholism."

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Think about that. To "honor" his alcoholic brother he created a product line that feeds the addiction of other suffering alcoholics.

That's just about the coldest form of capitalizing on someone's death that I have ever seen. It's exploitation of his dead brother. I don't even know what to say except this man is not merely narcissistic and a buffoon, he is EVIL.

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If you want to know true evil, look in here. (Original Post) Happyhippychick Jun 2016 OP
I guess I should be shocked but I am not... radical noodle Jun 2016 #1
That's what opportunistic psychopaths do. Avalux Jun 2016 #2
Good observation PJMcK Jun 2016 #3
This is the man millions want to as our president. Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2016 #4
Um, wait ... *THIS* brother Freddy ? eppur_se_muova Jun 2016 #5

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
2. That's what opportunistic psychopaths do.
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 02:04 PM
Jun 2016

I'm begging to think the only way to succeed in this country is to become one.

PJMcK

(21,985 posts)
3. Good observation
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 02:11 PM
Jun 2016

So he capitalized on his brother's death, sold the vodka and then didn't make the donations he promised. Des Donald Trump ever follow through on his promises?

eppur_se_muova

(36,246 posts)
5. Um, wait ... *THIS* brother Freddy ?
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 05:00 PM
Jun 2016
The situation changed in March, 2000, after Fred III and his wife, Lisa, filed suit in Queen’s Surrogate Court, claiming that Fred, Sr., who died in June, 1999, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and that his will had been “procured by fraud and undue influence” on the part of Donald, his brother Robert, a New York businessman, and his sister Maryanne, a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey. The will had divided most of their father’s estate, which was worth somewhere between a hundred million and three hundred million dollars, between the families of his surviving children, leaving considerably less to Freddy’s descendants than to other siblings’ children.

Trump and his siblings insisted that the will accurately reflected their father’s wishes. After the challenge, it didn’t take them long to retaliate. On March 30th, Fred III received a certified letter telling him that the medical benefits provided to his family by the Trump organization would end on May 1st. The letter prompted Fred III to return to court, this time in Nassau County, where a judge ordered the Trumps to restore the health coverage until the dispute was resolved. “I will stick to my guns,” Fred III told Evans. “I just think it was wrong. These are not warm and fuzzy people. They never even came to see William in the hospital. Our family puts the ‘fun’ in dysfunctional.” Fred III’s sister, Mary, told Evans, “William is my father’s grandson. He is as much a part of that family as anybody else. He desperately needs extra care.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/what-sort-of-man-is-donald-trump
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