96% of Hillary's charity is to self

Both candidate's foundations are shaky...


Donald Trump has long claimed to be a paragon of philanthropy, allegedly donating more than $100 million over the last half decade alone. “I give to hundreds of charities and people in need of help,” Trump told the Associated Press last year. “It is one of the things I most like doing and one the great reasons to have made a lot of money.”

Those claims have been repeatedly cast into doubt, to put it mildly. Publicly available records for the Trump Foundation show that the real estate mogul has donated very little of his own money to his charity. Even more damning is the fact that few of those donations have gone to legitimate charitable causes, unless you count Trump’s own social interests and society galas as charities.

According to an audit by The Washington Post, which dug through the records of 167 charities to which Trump had pledged money since 2008, only one donation was actually on the books: a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, made in 2009, for somewhere between $5,000 and $9,999.

The other millions that Trump said he would donate apparently never materialized.

Promising money and then not following through isn’t new for Trump. Between 1987 and 1991, the Trump Foundation only gave $137,000 of the $1.9 million that was pledged to causes such as AIDS research, veterans, and homeless organizations—about 7 percent of what was promised.

The remaining 93 percent went to society galas, his high school, his college, and a foundation for indigent real estate brokers. A ballet school Ivanka Trump attended received $16,750, while Eric Trump's private high school received more than the homeless, AIDS and multiple sclerosis contributions combined.

It’s unclear where all the money Trump has said he would donate actually goes. The fees Trump received for "consulting and public events" did not appear to have been dispersed.

In one instance in 1988, he charged boxer Mike Tyson $2 million to be an adviser for Tyson’s business ventures. “Anything I make from this position will go to charities fighting AIDS, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and helping the homeless,” he said at the time, promising to donate it to his foundation. That money never appeared in the Trump Foundation’s records.

The Trump campaign’s defense has long been that Trump doesn’t make the donations just through his foundation, but rather he makes them personally.

The only way to determine exactly how much he has donated himself is by analyzing his tax filings, which Trump has, coincidentally, refused to release.


http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/donald-trump-charity-giving
 
christiefan915 said:
Who knows what he's hiding. What we do know is that it's a slush fund for his personal interests.

"According to an unofficial audit by The Washington Post, which dug through the records of 167 charities to which Trump had pledged money since 2008, only one donation was actually on the books: a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, made in 2009, for somewhere between $5,000 and $9,999. The other millions that Trump said he would donate apparently never materialized.

Promising money and then not following through isn’t new for Trump. Between 1987 and 1991, the Post found that the Trump Foundation only ever gave $137,000 of the $1.9 million that was pledged to causes such as AIDS research, veterans, and homeless organizations—about 7 percent of what was promised. The remaining 93 percent went to groups that the Post characterized as “society galas, his high school, his college, a foundation for indigent real estate brokers.” A ballet school Ivanka Trump attended received $16,750, while Eric Trump's private high school received $40,000—“more than the homeless, AIDS and multiple sclerosis contributions combined.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/donald-trump-charity-giving
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http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/
 
Rana said:
Big donors of any church have a lot of say in church matters. You are slow today. ;)
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We are discussing a woman who is running for president who used her multi billion dollar charity as a quid pro quo within the State Department, as a tax loophole, and who knows what other nefarious purposes. And you wish to equate this with what pew is special? OMG you are a special kind of bot.
 
J Craft said:
We are discussing a woman who is running for president who used her multi billion dollar charity as a quid pro quo within the State Department, as a tax loophole, and who knows what other nefarious purposes. And you wish to equate this with what pew is special? OMG you are a special kind of bot.
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I see her point........big donors have a lot of say in Hillary matters......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
you don't even know if he's hiding anything......however we've seen movies about what Hillary's been hiding over at the CGI.......want the State Department to authorize you to do business in Nigeria?......hire Bill to give two speeches for $700k each, all of a sudden you get a waiver to deal with a sanctioned country.........
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And we know that movie and the book preceding it are utter bullshit that only gullible fools will take as gospel.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04...ts-author-admits-evidence-clinton-crimes.html
 
Irish said:
Libies like comparing apples to oranges.
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Rmoney is a bishop and stake president in his church so he certainly can exert some control or influence in what it does. Furthermore, he's bound by the tithing laws to give 10% each year and where do you think he gets that money?

The Vast Majority Of Mitt Romney's Charitable Donations In The Past Two Years Have Gone To The Mormon Church

Mitt Romney gets a lot of credit for the amount of money he has given away — as he should. No one has to give any money away, so the fact that some people choose to do so is admirable.
What is less well understood is which organizations Mitt Romney has given money to. And in the last two years, at least, the answer appears to be primarily one organization: The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon church. According to tax documents viewed by Business Insider, the vast majority of the money Mitt Romney gave away in 2009 and 2010--80% of it--went to the church.

In 2010, Mitt Romney took $3 million in charitable deductions on his tax return, against adjusted gross income of $22 million.


  • $1.5 million was a direct cash donation to the LDS Church
  • $1.5 million was a stock donation to the Romney's private foundation, which is called the Tyler Foundation. The Tyler Foundation, in turn, gave away $647,500 in 2010, of which $145,000 went to the church. (The Tyler Foundation is controlled by the Romneys, so any money the Tyler Foundation gives away is effectively money the Romneys are giving away)

In 2010, therefore, Romney gave third parties (other than his foundation) a total of $2.1 million, with a total of $1.7 million going to the church. 78% of Romney's donations in 2010, therefore, went to the church.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romneys-charitable-donations-mormon-church-2012-7
 
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