Bill Clinton bashes Trump for using foundation to pay Florida AG
“My charity helps people, his is used to pay off your attorney general”, Mr. Clinton said Wednesday at a rally in Orlando.
Initially, Bondi declined to comment on the story, according to several news organizations, but on September 6, the Florida attorney general appeared on Fox Business to deny allegations that she’d improperly solicited donations from Trump.
One thing the Trump Foundation did do was donate ,000 to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s campaign back in 2013, after which Bondi’s office decided not to pursue a fraud investigation of Trump University.
The Trump Foundation’s donation to Bondi’s campaign was made only days after the Florida AG’s office said it was looking into allegations against the university, CNN reported.
The ads were created and placed by a political consultant, Roger Stone, and appeared under the name of a front group, the Institute for Law and Society.
And after the check came in, Bondi’s office nixed suing Trump, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.
The Washington Post first reported the IRS fine, saying that in addition to the Trump Foundation’s “violating the federal rules that prohibit charities from donating to political candidates”, the donation to a Bondi political committee, And Justice for All, which was previously reported, also was not disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service.
Donald Trump’s new “pay to play” trouble continues to generate negative headlines for the candidate. No investigation was ever opened, and Bondi denies any connection between that decision and Trump’s donation.
According to the Huffington Post, Trump rented his Mar-a-Lago resort to the state’s party for a 2014 fundraiser for Bondi and charged only $4,855.65, while he’s charged his own campaign close to $140,000 to host an event at the venue.
“I don’t think this was a lengthy, memorable call”, Hicks said.
Trump said he’s provided the “most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics” and because he’s under a “routine audit”, he’s not able to make his tax returns public. Trump has long acknowledged his contributions to politicians on both sides of the aisle for his own benefit, and he’s surely not the only one who builds relationships this way.
Trump also knocked Clinton on Tuesday evening for using a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
October 15: Bondi’s office hands over documents to CREW indicating that it told reporters that it was never considering joining the NY lawsuit.
“My attorneys basically said that this was a proper way of doing it”, Trump testified.
Amid new reports about Donald Trump’s financial support for Pam Bondi, former President Bill Clinton accused the real estate tycoon of paying off the Florida Attorney General. “You know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me”, he said. According to Schneiderman, the “university” was “a fraud from beginning to end”, “swindling desperate people with phony promises”.
“Any prosecutor knows – and Pam Bondi was a prosecutor in Tampa before she ran for political office – that a prosecutor can not be a politician when performing their law enforcement duties”.