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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans families.
Before that, however, when was the last time that Trump gave any of his own money to a charity?
If Trump stands by his promises, such donations should be occurring all the time. In the past 15 years, Trump has promised to donate earnings from a wide variety of his money-making enterprises: The Apprentice. Trump Vodka. Trump University. A book. Another book. If he honored all those pledges, Trumps gifts to charity would have topped $8.5 million.
But in that time, public records show, Trump donated about $2.8 million less than a third of the pledged figure through a foundation set up to give his money away. And there is no evidence that Trump has given to his foundation lately: The last record of any gift from him to his foundation was in 2008.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html
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Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years. (Original Post)
NCTraveler
Jun 2016
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PJMcK
(21,998 posts)1. Donald Trump lied?
I'm amazed. And the most-excellent Washington Post just figured it out. Great journalism, there.
(sarcasm, if needed)
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)2. It is good that they are documenting his lies.
Considering the coverage he got during the primaries it is not a given.
PJMcK
(21,998 posts)3. Yeah, you're right
Of course you're correct, NCTraveler. I'm just so disgusted that the news media have failed our democracy for so long that I couldn't resist the snarkiness that sprang from my keyboard.
Enjoy your day!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)4. "failed our democracy for so long"
They are a national embarrassment and one of our biggest problems. I truly mean that.
Have a good day as well.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)5. He gave a bunch from the celebrity apprentice
That took me 2 seconds. He's a dog but I hate lying from anyone.
Gothmog
(144,928 posts)6. Don the Con only cares about one charity-himself
OnDoutside
(19,948 posts)7. Trump and Gadaffi ..... that's interesting
When Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi visited New York in 2009, Trump rented him space for a huge tent at an estate Trump owns north of the city. He said nothing about giving the proceeds to charity.
But two years later, Trump told a television interviewer, I said when I did it, Im going to take Gaddafis money . . . and Im going to give the money to charity, and thats exactly what I did.
BuzzFeed recently estimated Trumps take from Gaddafi at $150,000. If Trump did donate the money, there is no public trace of it; Trump donated nothing that year to his own foundation. And this spring, Trump seemed to have forgotten his vow to give the money to charity: I made a lot of money with Gaddafi, if you remember, he told CBS.