Democrats call for probe of Trump check to Florida AG

It seems clear that Trump used his foundation to protect his university from charges that it was taking real money from real people and producing fake results.

In one remarkable example from the Post’s story, Trump solicited $150,000 from the nonprofit Charles Evans Foundation between 2009-2010 while raising money for the Palm Beach Police Foundation. The Post has now called 326 charities with connections to Trump, asking whether they had received gifts of the nominee’s own money.

Instead, he has retooled his personal charity so that it gives away other people’s money – although Trump has kept his name on the foundation, and atop its cheques. As reported by the Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold, the painting depicts none other than Trump himself and stands at a whopping six feet tall.

Using a charity’s money to buy shit for yourself is what’s called “self-dealing”, and it’s generally prohibited by the IRS.

The Republican presidential candidate’s charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, is an unusual animal because in recent years it has been mostly filled with other people’s money, the Post reports.

The Post reported earlier this month how Trump paid the IRS a penalty this year for a 2013 “charitable donation” made by the Trump Foundation to a group supporting Florida attorney general Pamela Bondi, who soon after the donation was made decided against pursuing an investigation of Trump University. However, occasionally Trump will dip into the foundation’s holdings to buy things for himself. The donation came just days after her office told a newspaper it was considering whether to join a proposed multi-state lawsuit against Trump University and the Trump Institute – businesses that offered real-estate seminars that scores of former students allege were get-rich-quick scams.

The Post expanded on its investigation with another story Monday.

“Therefore, our concerns extend beyond Mr. Trump’s violation of tax laws”.

The Trump Foundation paid the $20,000, according to the charity that held the benefit. “We have already reached out to the Trump Foundation to ask them to actually SEND us the US$10,000 that they claimed they sent in 2008!” he wrote in an email. But the foundation’s tax returns had the right address for the one in Omaha, down to the suite number. Bondi has made her self-serving predilections even more clear by endorsing Trump and campaigning for him.

The new push by Clinton comes as she is facing one of the most hard stretches of her campaign.

While both foundations raise funds for charity, the Clinton Foundation functions as an organization with hundreds of staffers who implement and direct programs in various countries, while the Trump foundation makes contributions to other organizations with their own operations. The rest of his foundation’s funds are raised from other charities, to be disbursed by the Trump Foundation.