THE CHECKS IN THE MAIL.....FINALLY

[p_rehbein]

NEW YORK- Under pressure to account for money he claimed to raise for veterans, an irritated Donald Trump lambasted the news media Tuesday for pressing the issue and listed charities he said have now received millions of dollars from a fundraiser he held in January. Phone calls to all 41 of the groups by The Associated Press brought more than two-dozen responses Tuesday. About half reported checks from Trump within the past week, typically dated May 24, the day The Washington Post published a story questioning whether he had distributed all of the money. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told reporters at a testy news conference in New York that the fundraiser, held at the ...Read more

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[h=3]Vets groups: Checks from Donald Trump dated in the last week

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[p_rehbein]

From bad to worse? Hmm.......

The trouble, however, started two weeks ago, when the Washington Post started asking what happened to the money. The newspaper found that Trump did not raise $6 million as he’d claimed, and making matters worse, though his campaign said Trump had already made a $1 million contribution, that turned out not to be true, either. Yesterday, the presumptive Republican nominee held a press conference to set the record straight, though as the Washington Post reported, it didn’t go well. Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had given away all the money he had raised four months earlier for veterans – and at the same time bitterly attacked the news media for pressing him to explain what he had done with ...Read more

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Trump's veterans controversy goes from bad to worse




At another point yesterday, Trump insisted, “I didn’t want to have credit” for the charitable donations, except we know that’s not true, either: he obviously did want credit, which is why he held a televised fundraiser in which he boasted about his self-proclaimed leadership on raising money for veterans. There’s also the matter of Trump not actually deserving credit for the $1 million his campaign was caught fibbing about.

Adding insult to injury, Trump insisted yesterday, “When you send checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars to people and to companies and to groups that you’ve never heard of, charitable organizations, you have to vet it.” He even demanded tax materials from the organizations before they became eligible for the money.

Even if we put aside the irony of Trump demanding tax materials from groups while he insists on keeping his own tax returns hidden from the public, and even if we overlook the fact that his operation doesn’t appear to have done an especially good job in vetting, there’s also the inconvenient fact that, according to the Trump campaign, the groups werechosen in advance in January – suggesting the organizations had already been vetted.


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[p_rehbein]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday detailed $5.6 million in contributions he raised for military veterans, and staged a fiery news conference where he attacked reporters for questioning him for months about the money.


A number of veterans groups listed by Trump on Tuesday as recipients confirmed they had received the donation as listed, ranging from $25,000 to, in one case, $1.1 million, which went to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Some of the donations arrived in February or March, some as recently as last week around the time a critical article appeared in The Washington Post. The money arrived in the form of a check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation.


The Washington Post said Trump only handed over a personal donation of $1 million last week - four months after announcing it - once the newspaper started asking about the money.



But Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, said the news media should stop fretting about how Trump treats them.
"My advice to the press: Stop interviewing yourselves about Trump's attack on the press. Don't worry about it. Just do your jobs and be fair," he said.




Combative Trump says he raised $5.6 million for vets, bashes media

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[Sirk]

For me?

some people who pledged money ended up not giving any. Happens all the time with fundraisers. This would account for the shortfall.

 

[RachelBibleStudent]

everything this man has ever done has been a scam...forget about china ripping us off...-donald trump- has been ripping americans off for decades...

for some reason his supporters think they are in a different position and are not simply up to their necks in yet another trump scam...it really reminds me of another type of psychology...

'he cheated on her but he'll be faithful to me' has a lot in common with...
'he scammed the trump university students and tried to scam the veteran charity donors but he's being honest with me'

 

[Sirk]

everything this man has ever done has been a scam...forget about china ripping us off...-donald trump- has been ripping americans off for decades...

for some reason his supporters think they are in a different position and are not simply up to their necks in yet another trump scam...it really reminds me of another type of psychology...

'he cheated on her but he'll be faithful to me' has a lot in common with...
'he scammed the trump university students and tried to scam the veteran charity donors but he's being honest with me'

Haven't seen you in awhile. Did you finally get ungrounded from your computer?

 

[RachelBibleStudent]

Haven't seen you in awhile. Did you finally get ungrounded from your computer?

i didn't say anything snarky when -you- returned from an absence...

 

[Sirk]

i didn't say anything snarky when -you- returned from an absence...

"everything Trump has ever done is a scam". Can you back up such a sweeping accusation or have you just let your emotions get the best of you?

 

[RachelBibleStudent]

"everything Trump has ever done is a scam". Can you back up such a sweeping accusation or have you just let your emotions get the best of you?

i named two examples later on in that same post you replied to...trump university which was very clearly run like a scam from day one...and his pocketing the money he had pledged to veterans until someone with a high enough profile finally called him out on it...

this has been the common thread in trump's dealings for years...people who have done business with him say things like this...

"Trump won't do a deal unless there's something extra — a kind of moral larceny — in it. He's not satisfied with a profit. He has to take something more. Otherwise, there's no thrill."

trump is trying to 'make a deal' with the american people...are you going to see the 'moral larceny' in the deal he's offering before it's too late?

 

[Sirk]

i named two examples later on in that same post you replied to...trump university which was very clearly run like a scam from day one...and his pocketing the money he had pledged to veterans until someone with a high enough profile finally called him out on it...

this has been the common thread in trump's dealings for years...people who have done business with him say things like this...

"Trump won't do a deal unless there's something extra — a kind of moral larceny — in it. He's not satisfied with a profit. He has to take something more. Otherwise, there's no thrill."

trump is trying to 'make a deal' with the american people...are you going to see the 'moral larceny' in the deal he's offering before it's too late?

You can't prove any of that. This is why it's so difficult to talk to you. As if your opinion....which is really all you got....is the gospel truth. You should be street smart enough to know that if you wanna find bad you'll find plenty of people to feed it to you and feed your predetermined conclusions.

 

[Rosesrock]

Thing is.....the election is getting close. They will dig up someone's skeletons if it will stir up media.
The gorilla ordeal wasn't enough so here we go....also I think chick fil a has a new app.

 

[p_rehbein]

For me?

some people who pledged money ended up not giving any. Happens all the time with fundraisers. This would account for the shortfall.

But not for the delay in sending the checks........especially his PERSONAL CHECK right?

 

[Sirk]

But not for the delay in sending the checks........especially his PERSONAL CHECK right?

I guess I don't know. I often have to wait for money from customers until they get paid. Maybe it was a matter of getting the funds in place so that the checks weren't made of rubber. Maybe he' been busy campaigning, brushing up on foreign policy, debate prep, policy powwows and the like.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

everything this man has ever done has been a scam...forget about china ripping us off...-donald trump- has been ripping americans off for decades...

for some reason his supporters think they are in a different position and are not simply up to their necks in yet another trump scam...it really reminds me of another type of psychology...

'he cheated on her but he'll be faithful to me' has a lot in common with...
'he scammed the trump university students and tried to scam the veteran charity donors but he's being honest with me'

So,So true,I just don't understand trump supporters.

 

[Sirk]

So,So true,I just don't understand trump supporters.

You don't understand me?!? Crap....I thought you got me.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

I guess I don't know. I often have to wait for money from customers until they get paid. Maybe it was a matter of getting the funds in place so that the checks weren't made of rubber. Maybe he' been busy campaigning, brushing up on foreign policy, debate prep, policy powwows and the like.

You don't owe Trump any loyalty don't be the one to get played.

 

[Sirk]

You don't owe Trump any loyalty don't be the one to get played.

I know you have my best interest at heart and I appreciate that very much.

 

[Sirk]

Some of you know that I am a businessman. I've owned my own company since 2002. Surprisingly I still own it after two marriages. Lol. Anyway, in the business world you have to have a certain toughness with people or they will take advantage of you....they will take as much money as they possibly can off the table and put it in their pockets. Now in comparison to Trump, I'm not even small potatoes....but I digress.

Sure, Trump was born with money behind him...I didn't have that kind of luxury. Not only could my parents not afford to put me thru college but they were smart enough to not even try...lol.

The point is that as much as people can find negative about him (when you are in business at that level you are bound to make enemies) I can find positive things. I know that I keep beating this drum but look at his kids.....look at the fact that he has worked with hundreds of beautiful women and they can't find one that says he treated them badly, look at the fact that his 3 ex wives still like him, look at the fact that he has thousands of employees and most if not all like to work for him, look at the fact that he could have (coming of age in the 70's and 80's) been a whore mongering trust fund baby...but no....he embraced his head start in life, went to business school and made himself his own man. Look at the fact that all the political garbage in Washington hate him. I have a lot of respect for that.

 

[p_rehbein]

I guess I don't know. I often have to wait for money from customers until they get paid. Maybe it was a matter of getting the funds in place so that the checks weren't made of rubber. Maybe he' been busy campaigning, brushing up on foreign policy, debate prep, policy powwows and the like.

Your explanations would have been far better than what his Campaign staff gave........... Read what they said the reason was.......

 

[Sirk]

Your explanations would have been far better than what his Campaign staff gave........... Read what they said the reason was.......

Maybe they need to hire me.