2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhen the NY Attorney General gives immunity to Ebers in exchange for testimony, Trump is going down.
The only thing that might take him down would be something illegal at this point.
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When the NY Attorney General gives immunity to Ebers in exchange for testimony, Trump is going down.
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A mystery solved: Who is Richie Ebers & why did he give Trump's Foundation $1.9 million? @Fahrenthold explains.
Trump directed $2.3 million owed to him to his tax-exempt foundation instead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-directed-23-million-owed-to-him-to-his-charity-instead/2016/09/26/7a9e9fac-8352-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?postshare=2761474922583336&tid=ss_tw
By David A. Fahrenthold September 26 at 4:40 PM
Donald Trump appears onstage at his Comedy Central Roast in New York in 2011. (Charles Sykes/AP)
Donald Trumps charitable foundation has received approximately $2.3 million from companies that owed money to Trump or one of his businesses but were instructed to pay Trumps tax-exempt foundation instead, according to people familiar with the transactions.
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The gifts begin to answer one of the mysteries surrounding the foundation: Why would other people continue giving to Trumps charity when Trump himself gave his last recorded donation in 2008?
The donations from Ebers and Comedy Central, which account for half the money given to the Trump Foundation since 2008, also provide new evidence of the Trump Foundations ties to Trumps business empire.
[Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems]
Did Trump, in fact, pay income tax in the cases where he directed his own fees to the Trump Foundation?
The first time The Washington Post asked, Trumps campaign denied that any of the transactions had taken place.............................
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(12,904 posts)Kurt is digging deep.
Edited: just realized I credited the wrong author. Fahrenthold is correct.