Donald Trump may have repeatedly lied about giving money to 9/11 charities
Source: NY Daily News
Republican nominee Donald Trump claims he gave generously to help his city in the dark days after the deadly terrorist attacks. But new records show a pledged promise to donate $10,000 to a major 9/11 charity must have somehow slipped his mind.
City Controller Scott Stringer conducted a review of hundreds of pages of previously sealed records of the two main 9/11 charities at the request of the Daily News, and found that Trump and his charity hadn't donated a dime in the months after 9/11.
"For the periods covered by the audits, we did not find any record of a donation from Trump himself or a Trump entity to either the Twin Towers Fund or the New York City Public/Private Initiatives Inc.," Stringer's office said in a statement to the Daily News in response to a Freedom of Information Law request.
This appears to contradict Trump's prior boasts of spontaneous generosity, made as his hometown reeled from the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history. The records show that through mid-2002 there is no evidence that Trump personally or through the Trump Foundation gave to either group.
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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-lied-donating-9-11-charities-article-1.2829908
I've had to shorten the very long headline on the article -- EXCLUSIVE: City Controller Scott Stringer investigation reveals Donald Trump may have repeatedly lied about giving money to 9/11 charities -- in the way the Daily News has in its tweet about the story:
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/786709405349900288
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)recover from 9/11 even though he admitted his own properties weren't affected. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/27/joseph-crowley/did-donald-trump-cash-federal-funds-days-after-911/
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)What a nauseating treasonous un-American leech.
Dorian Gray
(13,498 posts)no give post 9-11
This is the man so many people are supporting for president.
It's insane.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Sensory overload.
Euphoria
(448 posts)If it's something done for someone
Else's benefit.....he definitely didn't do it.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)snips:
Instead, most donations came from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which didnt receive a personal check from Trump between 2008 and 2014, according to public tax filings. Although Trump decides where the foundations money goes, most of it comes from third-party donors.
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Many of the donations also came in the form of freebies to Trump-owned businesses; the Post estimates he claimed credit for 2,900 free rounds of golf, 175 free hotel stays, 165 free meals, and 11 spa gift certificates. But in at least one case, Trumps accountants overvalued the amount for which his free golf rounds sold at a charity auction.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)OTOH, saying that you donated 5 dollars because that was the amount of spare change in your pocket wouldn't sound much better either...