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Trump Foundation Donated to Charities After They Held Events at Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago "charity event"
Why is the Trump Foundation paying different charities "rebates"? Mar-a-Lago (a pseudo-Spanish name) is Trumps "pay-to-play" launching/landing pad.
The St. Jude Children's' Hospital learned its lesson the hard way about Trump "charity events".
Related: Trump Foundation donated to charities that booked galas at Mar-a-Lago
How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
Mar-a-Lago "charity event"
7/7/18
Over the past decade, President Donald Trump’s private foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to charitable organizations after they hosted events at his private Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. A review of the Trump Foundation’s tax records back to 2008 revealed that nearly all of the $706,000 in donations the organization made went to charities that hosted large events at Trump’s exclusive south Florida golf resort, according to an analysis by The Palm Beach Post. The Post found a pattern that showed $25,000 donations were typically given to a charity by the Trump Foundation after an event was relocated to Mar-a-Lago from a different venue. Those charities included local Red Cross and Salvation Army chapters, Morselife Foundation, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Palm Beach Zoo. The Trump Foundation has been under investigation for years by the state of New York and, as a result, had a lawsuit filed against it last month by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood. In the lawsuit filed June 14, she called the Trump Foundation a “little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality.” In the past few years, the Trump Foundation has admitted to the IRS it violated a “self-dealing” ban, which prohibited Trump and his family from directly using the money on themselves that was meant for the charity.
Why is the Trump Foundation paying different charities "rebates"? Mar-a-Lago (a pseudo-Spanish name) is Trumps "pay-to-play" launching/landing pad.
The St. Jude Children's' Hospital learned its lesson the hard way about Trump "charity events".
Related: Trump Foundation donated to charities that booked galas at Mar-a-Lago
How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business