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Seems that's also what Trump is doing, he's using foundation money, not his own personal money.

• dxhdr 9y ago
  Where do you think the foundation gets its money? http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/michael-and-susan-dell-commit-additional-1-billion-to-foundation http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/michael-and-susan-del...
  • dlp211 9y ago
    But Trump allegedly doesn't donate to his own foundation unlike the Dell's or the Gate's foundations.
    • cgb223 9y ago
      Do you have any kind of source on that?
      • aaronblohowiak 9y ago
        Farenthold's reporting covers it quite extensively
        • cgb223 9y ago
          Link?
          • aaronblohowiak 9y ago
            https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-philanthropy-but-his-giving-falls-short-of-his-words/2016/10/29/b3c03106-9ac7-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.85d0da236eec https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-... But there are others as well.. he won the pulitzer for his reporting on this
          • specialist 9y ago
            http://bfy.tw/DhwJ http://bfy.tw/DhwJ
    • kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
      It is essentially a tax exempt slush fund for him to play with. There truly is no bound to his sliminess.
      • cmurf 9y ago
        He's a grifter.
    • ams6110 9y ago
      How much did the Clintons donate to their foundation?
      • dlp211 9y ago
        I don't know off hand, but I know it isn't zero because they've released their tax returns for like 30 years.
  • wavefunction 9y ago
    As the other poster pointed out, Trump's charitable foundation takes donations from other people and re-donates the money. Sometimes he uses it to buy portraits of himself for $20,000.[0] [0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/this-is-the-portrait-of-himself-that-donald-trump-bought-with-20000-from-his-charity/?utm_term=.ef31c9aa7d9e https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11...
  • cmurf 9y ago
    Other people's money.