Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

So Trump's charity, the Trump Foundation, is currently being sued into oblivion by the State of New York for being up to 100% fraud and is now being dissolved.

The largest donation in the charity’s history — a $264,231 gift to the Central Park Conservancy in 1989 — appeared to benefit Trump’s business: It paid to restore a fountain outside Trump’s Plaza Hotel. The smallest, a $7 foundation gift to the Boy Scouts that same year, appeared to benefit Trump’s family. It matched the amount required to enroll a boy in the Scouts the year that his son Donald Trump Jr. was 11.

lol

Of course, like much of Trump's criminality, this has been an open secret for a long time.

IN ORDER TO understand the Eric Trump Foundation, you need to understand the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The president was never known for giving his foundation much money, and from 2009 to 2014, he didn't give it anything at all. Outsiders still donated, though, allowing Trump to dole out their money to a smattering of more than 200 charities as if it were his own, with many of the donations helping his business interests.

Until this board turnover, the Eric Trump Foundation pretty much did what it told its donors it would: send its money to St. Jude [pediatric cancer research center]. But starting in 2011, more than $500,000 was redirected to a variety of other charities, many of which were personal favorites of Trump family members and several of which had nothing to do with children's cancer--but happened to become clients of Trump's golf courses.

Some half-jokingly speak about guillotining/eating the rich, but I have a better idea. White collar prosecution is at one of its all-time lows, because going after the rich and powerful is difficult and unpopular (with the rich and powerful). After this family is put away, the IRS should have its funding restored, the Special Counsel's Office should be redesignated as a White Collar Task Force, and they should be set loose on a mission to ruthlessly investigate and prosecute all the riches. Since there is a hangup over giving elites real jail time, the penalties should be largely (and severely) expropriative. But don't worry, none of the targets will starve with mere millions remaining.

Investigate how many 0.1%ers?

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Edit: Any White Collar Task Force should be funded to the tune of billions, in order to pursue its mission properly. It'll pay for itself soon enough. Perhaps also fairer and more efficient than disproportionately auditing people literally on the poverty line.