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Sol Tee Nutz

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Look behind you.
You could have at least not copied The Clinton crime family title.
 

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No joke Clinton Crime Family made me laugh. Even if it's only partly true, the alliteration makes it sound better.

As for thread topic, it's too depressing to think about. Each day that passes this guy further illustrates why he's not fit for any office, much less the highest office in the land. Yet for Republicans, it's business as usual: party over patria.
 

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This story nearly made me sick!

Eric Trump Foundation Told Donors Money Went To Kids With Cancer, Then Gave To Different Causes

by Dan Alexander, Forbes

Dressed in a pinstriped suit and blue tie, with New York’s Plaza Hotel framed over his left shoulder and Central Park over his right, the president’s son Eric Trump touts his charity’s 2014 golf invitational in a Trump Organization video. “It’s really kind of the pinnacle for the Eric Trump Foundation,” he says. “We just raised an inordinate amount of money, and it all obviously goes to the children of St. Jude.”

The charity did in fact raise a serious amount of money at the golf event that year, some $1.8 million, according to federal tax filings, while maintaining an impressive expense ratio of just 14%. But not all of the money went to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a renowned pediatric cancer center in Memphis, where the Eric Trump Foundation had been telling its donors their money went for years. In fact, St. Jude received $1.2 million, $240,000 covered expenses and more than $200,000 went to other organizations, most of which had no programs to help kids with cancer but did have strong ties to Trump family members and interests.

Ten thousand dollars paid for tables at an event for another nonprofit, the Little Baby Face Foundation, which honored Eric at its annual gala one year. Some $37,000 went to the Staten Island Zoo, which at one point said the Eric Trump Foundation had helped to donate three arctic foxes. Another $15,000 went to a charity that supports at-risk Jewish children in a southern Ukrainian city.

And that was just in 2014. From 2011 to 2015, the Eric Trump Foundation donated more than $6 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, but it also doled out over $500,000 to about 40 other charities, while assuring donors on its website that all gifts supported St. Jude.

A spokesperson for the Eric Trump Foundation, which was recently rebranded Curetivity, said the charity had been transparent — at least with some people. “Relevant donors whose money was given to causes other than St. Jude were made aware the funds would be donated elsewhere,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to Forbes. “All donations made via the website were given to St. Jude.”

But in light of the charity’s public statements, nonprofit legal experts say any donations that did not go to St. Jude are likely to catch the eye of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. His office announced that it was launching an inquiry into the Eric Trump Foundation earlier this month, after Forbes revealed practices that appeared to violate state laws and federal tax rules. The attorney general, a Democrat who has publicly opposed the president’s policies, is also investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

“If you are raising money for X, and you give it to Y, that is fraud, even if Y is a charity,” says James Fishman, a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York who now teaches at Pace University’s law school. “If I’m writing a check for somebody, and you give it to somebody else, I mean that is fraudulent.”

The Eric Trump Foundation wasn’t always this way. The president’s second son started the charity in 2007 with two friends and, by all accounts, good intentions. In its first four years, the organization sent almost all of its money to St. Jude. It made one major exception, in 2008, when it gave $65,000 to a charity that supports military families. The charity, Fisher House, was added to the Eric Trump Foundation website, signaling to donors that some money would go to an organization besides St. Jude.

But in 2010, the culture inside the Eric Trump Foundation began to change. Four of the original seven directors of the charity dropped off of the board, and three essentially full-time Trump Organization employees joined, marking the beginning of a power shift that ultimately left the organization controlled mostly by people who were financially dependent on Eric’s father, Donald Trump.

The future president insisted that his for-profit golf club begin billing his son’s charity for hosting its fundraiser at the course, according to former Trump golf employee Ian Gillule and former Eric Trump Foundation board member Katrina Kaupp. From 2012 to 2014, the Eric Trump Foundation also made gifts to at least four organizations, which spent an estimated $400,000 or more on events at Donald Trump-owned properties.

As the charity donated more and more to disparate causes, its website increasingly gave the impression that everything was going to the hospital. By 2011 a “donate now” page read “All donations go toward supporting the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.” Two years later, the messaging got more specific: “All donations solely benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.”

Yet more than $50,000 went to other charities who held various events. In 2013, the Eric Trump Foundation paid $833 for a golf outing benefitting the foundation of Miami Dolphins tight end Anthony Fasano, according to a representative for the athlete. Eric Trump attended a dinner for the Lubavitch Youth Organization, a Jewish charity in New York, and donated $10,000 to the group, according to the director of the organization. The Eric Trump Foundation paid $15,000 for tables at a gala for the Little Baby Face Foundation, which offers surgery to children with facial deformities, in 2013 and 2014, according to a Little Baby Face Foundation representative.

At least $200,000 went to causes that appear to be favorites of Trump family members. Eric’s wife Lara, who is passionate about animals, first appeared on the charity’s list of directors in 2013. That year, the organization shipped more than $60,000 from the kids-cancer charity to a zoo, animal shelter and horse rescue in New York. A favorite cause of Eric’s brother Don Jr., cleft-palate charity Operation Smile, received $20,000.

And then there were the auctions. In 2013, the Eric Trump Foundation spent $940 to buy an undisclosed item at an auction to support the American Heart Association, according to a spokesperson for the heart charity. The same year, $1,600 went to a wine industry organization, which the Eric Trump Foundation incorrectly identified as a charitable organization on its tax filings, in exchange for a copper wine still and an antique bottle washer purchased at auction, according to the wine organization.

When asked about the donation, Eric Trump responds, “I don’t know. I honestly don’t. What year would that have been? I mean $1,600 bucks doesn’t sound like a very big item.”

In 2012, the Eric Trump Foundation made a $25,000 donation to the foundation of a Louisiana artist. The artist, whose paintings sometimes sold for roughly $25,000, created a portrait of Donald Trump for the auction at an Eric Trump Foundation event. It is unclear what exactly happened next, but an identical painting showed up in a 2014 Eric Trump photo shoot, hanging above the couch in his house. A charity spokesperson did not respond to questions about the donation.

A close review of Eric Trump Foundation tax filings raises more questions. According to the documents, all revenue flowing into the Eric Trump Foundation from 2008 to 2014 came from the annual golf invitational. The charity helped to organize other events, like a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. But money from those events was sent directly to St. Jude without going through the financial statements of the Eric Trump Foundation, according to a 2015 state filing.

Two former board members, Katrina Kaupp and Doug Reinhardt, said they believed the proceeds from the golf invitational also went entirely to the children’s hospital. “From what I know, all of it went to St. Jude,” Reinhardt says. “I’m 99.9% positive all of it went to St. Jude.”

But not all of it did, according to the charity’s IRS filings.

Kaupp says that may be partially because members of the board of directors made additional donations specifically targeting other charities, which could have been lumped in as golf tournament revenue on the IRS documents. A spokesperson for the charity did not respond to a question about whether board members had donated to specific other organizations through the Eric Trump Foundation. But there is some evidence to support Kaupp’s theory. At Eric’s wedding, for instance, he and his wife Lara asked for donations in lieu of gifts. That money was then split, with some of it going to St. Jude and $55,000 going to a North Carolina animal shelter named Paws Place, which was a favorite charity of Lara’s, according to Peggy Durso, the operations director of the animal charity.

But Eric Trump and his fellow board members did not donate all of the money that went to other causes. State filings from 2012 show that all directors and their families gave just $72,600 of the total $2.3 million raised that year. Yet the foundation shelled out more than $110,000 to organizations other than St. Jude, according to IRS documents. That means that even if the directors had given no money to St. Jude, they still would not have donated enough to offset the payments to other organizations. In 2013 Eric Trump, the other board members, their families, and “companies of one of the family members” gave $65,000, while the charity donated more than $150,000 to organizations other than St. Jude, according to state and federal filings.

“If one represents that the funds are going to be used to benefit charity A and instead they go to charities B, C and D, that’s a misrepresentation,” says Sean Delany, a former assistant attorney general who oversaw the charities bureau in the state of New York. “A donor might choose to donate specifically because they care deeply about children’s cancer issues, or they care deeply about supporting St. Jude hospital in particular, and have no interest in supporting those other charities.”

Eric Trump Foundation told donors money went to kids with cancer than shifted money to other causes instead
 

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Crooks family at the head of the biggest economic power on the planet... And the index is rising.

puzzling...
 

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Nothing of substance Doc.
While most of the money went to St.Judes......a tiny fraction went to other non-profit charities.
All it shows is that Eric is a charitable person.
Criminal father yes....crime family not so.
 

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Au contraire, my friend. There is a lot of substance in the article i posted. The charity was doing well & its intentions were good when it was first created. But as the article stated things started to change when the Trump cronies from the Trump organization started implicate themselves in Eric Trump's charity.

How Donald Trump shifted kids cancer charity into his business

How Donald Trump shifted kids cancer charity into his business
 

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Very good article by one of America's top columnists:

Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace

by Eugene Robinson

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have tried their best to soar gracefully above the raging dumpster fire that is the Trump administration. Unhappily for the handsome couple, gravity makes no allowances for charm.

Kushner, already reported to be a “person of interest” in the Justice Department probe of President Trump’s campaign, is arguably the individual with the most to lose from the revelation that the campaign did, after all, at least attempt to collude with the Russian government to boost Trump’s chances of winning the election.

The president’s hapless eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — who convened the June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer for the purpose of obtaining dirt on Hillary Clinton — had no operational role in the campaign. Paul J. Manafort, who also attended, was the campaign’s chairman, but his many shady business dealings with several Ukrainian and Russian characters were already under scrutiny, so the encounter with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya could be seen as just another item on the list.

Kushner was at the meeting, too, however, and he had oversight of the campaign’s digital operations. That could be a problem, given the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered with the election and that the meddling took place largely in cyberspace.

And unlike the other participants, Kushner has an official position in the Trump administration. He serves in the White House as a senior adviser to the president with responsibility for numerous high-profile initiatives — and with a top-secret security clearance, which should be revoked immediately.

Trump Jr. says that Kushner didn’t stay long at the session with Veselnitskaya and that no damaging information about Clinton was imparted. But because he kept the meeting secret for more than a year, scoffing indignantly at the very notion of collusion with the Russians, and then twice lied about the nature of the meeting before finally coming clean, no one should believe another word that Trump Jr. says on the subject. At least, not until special counsel Robert S. Mueller III puts him under oath, which I believe is likely to happen.

At one point in his changing story, Trump Jr. said that Kushner and Manafort didn’t even know what the meeting was about. Yet he copied both of them on an email chain that begins with an intermediary’s offer of campaign help from the “Russian government.” The proper thing to do would have been to call the FBI, but this crowd knows nothing of propriety.

The Veselnitskaya encounter was one of more than 100 meetings or phone calls with foreigners that somehow slipped Kushner’s mind when he applied for his security clearance. He revealed this one in one of his subsequent efforts to amend the form.

It is hard to imagine what connection Kushner might have had to the Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee computers and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails. But there was another component of the clandestine effort to help Trump get elected: Investigators believe that as Election Day approached, Russian trolls and “bots” flooded the social media accounts of key voters in swing states with “fake news” and disinformation about Clinton, according to a report Wednesday by McClatchy .

How would the Russians know which voters to target, down to the precinct level, in states such as Wisconsin and Michigan? This is a question that surely will be posed to Kushner, since at the time he happened to be overseeing a sophisticated digital campaign operation that tracked voters at a granular level.

Ivanka Trump’s name has not surfaced in the Russia affair. But she, like her husband, is serving as a presidential adviser, and she received unwanted attention when she briefly took her father’s place at the head table during the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg. We expect officials representing our country to have been elected by the voters or appointed because of merit, not installed by the caprices of heredity.

She also received unwanted scrutiny when three labor activists were arrested in May for investigating alleged sweatshop practices at a factory in China where Ivanka Trump-brand shoes have been manufactured.

Among Manhattan’s progressive upper crust, Jared and Ivanka — they really are first-name-only celebrities at this point — were expected to at least temper the hard-right policy positions being pushed by other presidential advisers. If this indeed is what they are trying to do, they’ve had a negligible impact to date.

Writing in Time magazine, Henry Kissinger wished Kushner well “in his daunting role flying close to the sun.” Jared and Ivanka have first-class educations. They know how the Icarus story ends.

Javanka begin their fall from grace
 

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You could have at least not copied The Clinton crime family title.
Please provide one example or STFU. (Note: reliable news sources only and, no, Fox is not a reliable news source.)
 

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Look behind you.
Please provide one example or STFU. (Note: reliable news sources only and, no, Fox is not a reliable news source.)

Serious. Look at the wealth they have for working in a government position. Do you actually think I need a link to please you?
As for STFU, be my guest. Guess you would be OK with CNN
You Liberal/socialists could have Clinton shit in your cereal and you would probably thank them for the corn.
 

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Serious. Look at the wealth they have for working in a government position. Do you actually think I need a link to please you?
As for STFU, be my guest. Guess you would be OK with CNN ��������
You Liberal/socialists could have Clinton shit in your cereal and you would probably thank them for the corn.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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Serious. Look at the wealth they have for working in a government position. Do you actually think I need a link to please you?
As for STFU, be my guest. Guess you would be OK with CNN ��������
You Liberal/socialists could have Clinton shit in your cereal and you would probably thank them for the corn.

Hahahaha
 

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Serious. Look at the wealth they have for working in a government position. Do you actually think I need a link to please you?
As for STFU, be my guest. Guess you would be OK with CNN ��������
You Liberal/socialists could have Clinton shit in your cereal and you would probably thank them for the corn.

Haha as a socialist we like free stuff ;)

Cheers,
 

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Look behind you.
During President Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign for re-election, several individuals allegedly worked on behalf of the Chinese government to influence the presidential election in favor of Clinton.

"Chinagate" began*when the Los Angeles Times reported, a couple months before the '96 election, the following:

"The Democratic National Committee has returned a $250,000 contribution from a recently established subsidiary of a South Korean electronics company because it violated a ban on donations from foreign nationals in U.S. elections, a party spokesman said Friday. ...

"David Eichenbaum, DNC communications director ... said that the DNC fund-raiser who was responsible for the contribution was under the impression, erroneously as it turned out, that it fulfilled the legal qualifications. He said it was unclear whether the fund-raiser was misled or there had been a misunderstanding."

DNC did the standard "Oops, we made a boo-boo, here's your money back, it's all OK now" dog and pony show. That worked for a while. But a few months later, on Feb. 13, 1997,*The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy reported:

"A Justice Department investigation into improper political fund-raising activities has uncovered evidence that representatives of the People's Republic of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the Democratic National Committee before the 1996 presidential campaign, officials familiar with the inquiry said."

"The Chinese effort to win influence with the Clinton administration can be traced to 1993, one source said. ... Some investigators suspected a Chinese connection to the current fund-raising scandal because several DNC contributors and major fund-raisers had ties to Beijing. Last February, Charles Yah Lin Trie, a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee, used his influence with party officials to bring Wang Jun, head of a weapons trading company owned by the Chinese military, to a White House coffee with Clinton.

"Wang also heads a prominent, state-owned investment conglomerate. Clinton has since said he should not have met with Wang, and $640,000 in checks that Trie delivered to president's legal defense fund has been returned because of questions about the source of the funds."

The DNC vice chairman and fundraiser at the center of the DNC's illegal contribution was formerly a top executive involved with Asian and Chinese corporations, with some holdings sold to the Chinese government. Before joining the DNC, he left his corporate job with a large severance and worked at the Commerce Department for 18 months, where he enjoyed a top-secret clearance. Evidence showed more than 70 calls from his Commerce office to a bank controlled by his former corporation; memos of calls from Chinese embassy officials; three meetings scheduled with Chinese government officials; a breakfast and a dinner at the Chinese embassy; and at least one visit to the "residence of the Chinese ambassador."

After a year of investigation, FBI director Louis Freeh sent Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno*a 22-page memorandum, stating, "It is difficult to imagine a more compelling situation for appointing an independent counsel."

Several months later, Charles LaBella, head of the Justice Department's campaign-finance task force, also sent a report to Reno recommending she appoint an independent counsel. The evidence, LaBella said, "suggests a level of knowledge within the White House -- including the president's and first lady's offices -- concerning the injection of foreign funds into the reelection effort." He also said, "If these allegations involved anyone other than the president, vice president, senior White House or DNC and Clinton/Gore '96 officials, an appropriate investigation would have commenced months ago without hesitation."

Reno, however, declined all requests for an independent counsel.

Before Chinagate, Sen. Ted Kennedy, thinking of running for president in 1988, reportedly offered to help the Soviets influence the 1984 election. Desperate to stop President Ronald Reagan's re-election, Kennedy, as first reported in The London Times in 1992, reached out via an intermediary to the Soviet KGB.

The London Times*revealed a 1983 KGB document*from KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov to the then-leader of the USSR, Yuri Andropov. Chebrikov relayed an offer presented to the Soviet leaders from Kennedy, delivered in person by "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant" John Tunney, a former Democratic senator who was Kennedy's law school roommate.

Kennedy, according to the memo, offered to help the Soviets deal with Reagan, whom Kennedy perceived as a warmonger. Kennedy would "arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA." In exchange, Kennedy wanted Soviet aid in challenging Reagan's re-election. Kennedy offered to use his influential friends in liberal American media to arrange television interviews for Andropov. This would soften the Soviets' image, Kennedy suggested, and help brand Reagan as reckless and dangerous.

The memo said, "Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president."

To summarize, there was no special prosecutor for Chinagate. And few in the media followed up on the Kennedy/KGB story when it broke. This explains why Trump supporters, despite the selective hyperventilation over Russian "collusion," still back their man.


You are all saying fake news of course.
 
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That's the best you've got? A not particularly large contribution that was returned?
 

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There is a new section in the GENERAL AREA for discussions about politics, religion and international affairs.
Maybe the MODS can move all the Clintolton, Trump, Trudeau etc. threads there.
I hope the moderation in that section will be a little more tolerant .

They should have named it: GENERAL AREA for discussions about politics, religion, international affairs and fake news!
 

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Trump Jr.'s legal team adds another lawyer

by Eli Watkins and Diane Ruggiero

WASHINGTON--Donald Trump Jr.'s legal team has a new member.

Karina Lynch, an attorney at Washington law firm Williams & Jensen, confirmed to CNN on Sunday that she has joined Alan Futerfas in representing President Donald Trump's eldest son.

While Futerfas has frequently represented clients in organized crime and cybersecurity cases, Lynch worked for years as a counsel for two Republican senators, according to her Williams & Jensen biography. Both of those senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, are involved in congressional investigations of Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and allegations of collusion by the Trump campaign.

In her work for Williams & Jensen, Lynch concentrated on legislative, regulatory and oversight issues in the health care industry as well as education and tax policy, her profile on the law firm's website says.
Fox Business Network first reported that Lynch has been hired.

Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have agreed to have private discussions with and provide records to the Senate judiciary committee as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the US election, Grassley, the committee chairman, and Dianne Feinstein of California, its top Democrat, said in a joint statement Friday.

In response to reporting from The New York Times, Trump Jr. posted emails on Twitter earlier this month showing him setting up a meeting with a Russian attorney last year through an acquaintance in hopes of potentially receiving damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Manafort and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, now a top White House adviser, also attended the June 2016 meeting.

Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the Justice Department investigation into Russian efforts to influence last year's election, has asked the White House to preserve all documents relating to the meeting, which took place at Trump Tower, according to a source.

The House intelligence committee announced last week that it will interview Kushner on Tuesday as part of its probe into Russia's meddling into the 2016 election. Kushner is being interviewed by Senate intelligence committee staff on Monday.

Fredo adds another lawyer

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! :mad::mad::mad:
 

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Republican Senator Rand Paul warns Trump not to pardon Trump Crime Family members

The Republican Senator from Kentucky was interviewed Sunday morning by the great Jake Tapper and warned so-called President Donald Trump against pardoning himself and members of his crime family. Paul did mention that he believes Trump has the authority to pardon himself, which would be extremely unusual.

Rand Paul warns dictator wannabe Trump about pardons
 
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