Repeated and willful self-dealing transactions
Bam.
The Donald J. Trump Foundation will close and give away all its remaining funds under judicial supervision amid a lawsuit accusing the charity and the Trump family of using it illegally for self-dealing and political gain, the New York attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.
The attorney general, Barbara Underwood, accused the foundation of “a shocking pattern of illegality” that was “willful and repeated” and included unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests,” Ms. Underwood said.
In short, he’s a crook and a liar and a fraud and a thief…and he’s also the president of the United States.
His kids are also crooks, liars, frauds, thieves.
The closure of the foundation is a milestone in the investigation. But the broader lawsuit, which also seeks millions in restitution and penalties and a bar on President Trump and his three oldest children from serving on the boards of other New York charities, is proceeding.
While he continues to squat in the Oval Office, doing his best to destroy the country as he goes down.
Ms. Underwood’s office sued the Trump Foundation in June, charging it with “improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.”
Nonprofit foundations are supposed to be devoted to charitable activities, but the attorney general’s office, following a two-year investigation, accused the Trump Foundation of being used to win political favor and even purchase a $10,000 portrait of Mr. Trump that was displayed at one of his golf clubs. The existence of the portrait was first reported by The Washington Post.
The lawsuit accused the foundation of virtually becoming an arm of the Trump campaign, with its campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, directing the foundation to make disbursements in Iowa only days before the state held its presidential nominating caucuses.
So you’re not supposed to use a charitable foundation to bribe voters? Who knew?
The foundation lawsuit follows years of scrutiny of President Trump’s charitable activities and adds to his extensive legal challenges, amid a continuing investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Tick tock tick tock.
During the campaign, there were countless articles and op-ed pieces about how the Clinton Foundation might possibly pose a conflict of interest for Hillary, or the appearance of impropriety. The corruption of the Trump Foundation went mostly unremarked.
Trump, of course, is spinning this by saying that he wanted to dissolve the foundation months ago, but was blocked by the AG from doing so–without mentioning that the reason for that block was that the AG wisely didn’t trust a bunch of self-dealing crooks to dispose of the funds without cutting themselves off a slice.
I suspect Trump thought if he dissolved the foundation that would automatically terminate the case. Plus he could keep the money.
It is the Trump Foundation, so of course it’s his money. Just like the Trump election campaign (where’s my fucking) money was his money.
I seem to remember that Trump didn’t even put much – if any – of his own money into the foundation. It was almost all other people’s money.