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Trump Foundation:
Trump Foundation was shut down for its misconduct.
Trump was ordered to pay $2 million, or $250,000, a piece to eight different charities. Those charities are Army Emergency Relief, the Children’s Aid Society, Citymeals-on-Wheels, Give an Hour, Martha’s Table, the United Negro College Fund, the United Way of National Capital Area, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Trump was forced to reimburse his namesake foundation $11,525 for sports paraphernalia and champagne purchased at a charity gala.
He allowed his presidential campaign staff to coordinate with the Trump Foundation in holding a fundraiser for veterans.
Trump directed the foundation to use money for charity to buy a Tim Tebow helmet for himself, a portrait of himself and to settle a couple lawsuits for himself.
$10,000 was spent on a portrait of the president, later found on display at a sports bar at the Trump Doral.
In 1989, Trump apparently used a charity’s money to pay his son’s $7 registration fee for the Boy Scouts.
Donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses.
Eric Trump used his foundation’s money, rather than his own, to pay $1,600 to the American Society for Enology & Viticulture for a copper wine still and an antique bottle washer.
Trump also used $25,000 in charitable money to make a donation to support the reelection campaign of then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican who is reportedly going to join his administration soon and at the time was considering whether to launch an investigation of Trump University .
In one case, from 2007, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club faced $120,000 in unpaid fines from the town of Palm Beach, Fla., resulting from a dispute over the height of a flagpole. In a settlement, Palm Beach agreed to waive those fines — if Trump’s club made a $100,000 donation to a specific charity for veterans. Instead, Trump sent a check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity funded almost entirely by other people’s money, according to tax records.
Trump Presidency
Trump left the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history and a national debt exceeding 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II.
Yet while running for president, Trump pledged to balance the budget and then pay off the entire national debt.
US taxpayers paid a $3.4 million bill for sending President Donald Trump and his family to Florida, where he hosted a ticketed Super Bowl Party for guests at his private golf club on Sunday.
Trump played approximately 261 rounds of golf during his presidency and cost taxpayers more than $130.4 million on golf outings.
Trump University
A federal judge finalized a $25 million settlement for thousands of students who claimed they were defrauded by Trump University, a for-profit real estate seminar Trump set up that was not accredited.
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