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    When Donald Trump released his book Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again in November, a big part of his sales pitch was that the proceeds from the book would go to charity.

    “I’m giving them away, the profits of my book,” Trump told reporters during a press conference at Trump Towers.

    By March, Crippled America, with a hardcover list price of $25, had sold more than 200,000 copies. Quite a lot of that money has gone to Trump.

    Last month, the Republican reported that he had earned between $1 million and $5 million in royalties from Crippled America, according to a disclosure form Trump filed with federal election officials.

    At the time, his campaign bragged that Trump had made $557 million in the past 18 months.

    Customers who bought Crippled America believed that Trump was giving their money to charity. Several reviews on Amazon laud the billionaire for his supposed generosity. One review emphatically thanks Trump for “Donating Proceeds To Vet Charities!!!“ Another declares, “The proceeds from the sales of this book go to Veterans!”

    But it’s not clear how much money from sales of Crippled America, if any, has been donated to veterans, or to any charitable groups.

    The Huffington Post reached out to members of Trump’s presidential campaign, and to two senior executives at his company and the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, to ask how proceeds of Crippled America were being distributed to charities.

    No one responded to our inquiries.



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    It’s possible, of course, that Trump still plans to donate the profits from Crippled America to charity at some point in the future.

    There are a number of reasons to be skeptical.

    The Washington Post revealed that Trump had yet to follow through on a promise he’d made in January to donate $1 million to veterans’ groups.

    Trump only cut a check after the Post ran a story about how Trump was basking in public admiration for a donation he’d never actually made.

    When Trump makes promises of this sort, the result is more than just easy publicity. The perception that Trump is giving something away is part of his sales pitch, and he uses it to encourage regular non-millionaires to give him their hard-earned money.

    During a fundraising event, Trump asked the public to "join" him in donating money to vets through a website that funneled money to Trump’s private Donald J. Trump Foundation.

    In the weeks that followed, people donated over $1.6 million through the website.

    Trump has not personally donated to the Donald J. Trump Foundation since 2009.





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    People are so gullible. Trump's the P.T. Barnum of our time: "There's a sucker born every minute."


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    All the people who voted for Trump because he promised he would be self funded, should sue him for fraud.
    If they got "Mexican" judges they would probably win.
    LOL
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Trump is a serial liar, a fraud, a failure, and a phony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion Troll View Post
    Trump is a serial liar, a fraud, a failure, and a phony.
    He is all of that.
    and he is no republican.
    LOL
    “Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman,” he told Greta Van Susteren. “I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she’s given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
    If the answer is yes, you are a racist.

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    That doesn't matter to the Trumptards.

    They want to believe!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion Troll View Post
    That doesn't matter to the Trumptards.

    They want to believe!
    They have to. It's the first time they think they have had a chance to vote for a racist for a very long time.
    Racists have faith!
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
    If the answer is yes, you are a racist.

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    George Wallace was the last one. Most Trumptards remember him fondly, I assume.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion Troll View Post
    George Wallace was the last one. Most Trumptards remember him fondly, I assume.
    Wallace was the darling of the racists, as is Trump.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
    If the answer is yes, you are a racist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leonthecat View Post
    Wallace was the darling of the racists, as is Trump.
    The similarities are profound, Brother Leon.

    I don't recall Wallace boasting about his wealth, or claiming to make nonexistent charitable donations, though.

    Do you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion Troll View Post
    The similarities are profound, Brother Leon.

    I don't recall Wallace boasting about his wealth, or claiming to make nonexistent charitable donations, though.

    Do you?
    He had more integrity than Trump, though that's not saying very much.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
    If the answer is yes, you are a racist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leonthecat View Post
    He had more integrity than Trump, though that's not saying very much.

    How many "donations" has Teflon Don the deadbeat claimed he made and failed actually deliver, so far?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion Troll View Post
    How many "donations" has Teflon Don the deadbeat claimed he made and failed actually deliver, so far?
    My guess would be all of them.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

    rac·ist
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    a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
    Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
    If the answer is yes, you are a racist.

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