Trump then takes that money and generally does with it as he pleases. Since then, all of the donations have been other people’s money - an arrangement that experts say is almost unheard of for a family foundation. In tax records, the last gift from Trump was in 2008. An investigation of the foundation - including examinations of 17 years of tax filings and interviews with more than 200 individuals or groups listed as donors or beneficiaries - found that it collects and spends money in a very unusual manner.įor one thing, nearly all of its money comes from people other than Trump. Trump Foundation is not like other charities. Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold is investigating how much Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has given to charity over the past seven years. It’s unclear how much was paid in 2010, but the police foundation reported in its tax filings that it rented Mar-a-Lago in 2014 for $276,463. The gala was held at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, and the police foundation paid to rent the room. On the night that he won the Palm Tree Award for his philanthropy, Trump may have actually made money. Trump had effectively turned the Evans Foundation’s gifts into his own gifts, without adding any money of his own. In those years, the Trump Foundation’s gifts totaled $150,000. Then, Trump’s foundation turned around and made donations to the police group in South Florida. Trump Foundation, a small charity that the Republican presidential nominee founded in 1987. In 20, it gave a total of $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump said he was raising money for the Palm Beach Police Foundation. Trump had earlier gone to a charity in New Jersey - the Charles Evans Foundation, named for a deceased businessman - and asked for a donation. Instead, Trump had found a way to give away somebody else’s money and claim the credit for himself. His support did not include any of his own money. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity - the Palm Beach Police Foundation - for his “selfless support” of its cause. Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler.
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