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Where do you think the foundation gets its money? http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/michael-and-susan-dell-commit-additional-1-billion-to-foundation http:

by 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.