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If you make a lot of noise about your charity, you might have given something.
Remember Trump's charity is mostly getting easements for his golf courses. Not reaching into his own pocket.
I have no problem with Trump's behaving like Scrooge. I do have a problem with him talking about how generous while behaving like scrooge
Documents Show Donald Trump's New York Values Do NOT Include Giving To 9/11 Charities | RedState
According to a thorough review, Trump didn’t see fit to give any of those millions of dollars he is always bragging about to help out the men, women, children, cops, firefighters, office workers … hey, let’s just call them New Yorkers, who were killed or who lost someone in the terror of September 11th. In fact, his supposedly philanthropic foundation hasn’t given them a single penny.
Take, for example, this 2003 report from The Foundation Center on the “unprecedented outpouring of charitable support that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” On this list of institutional donors you will see no listing for the Donald J. Trump Charitable Foundation. That’s because he made no donation to any of the listed charities set up for victims and families of 9/11.
This donation dearth includes, and this will be important later in the article, the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund, specifically formed for 9/11, to which Trump’s charity also gave zero dollars.
Of course, even if the Foundation had taken part, it wouldn’t have amounted to much. According to this report from Ben Davis, Trump the “ardent philanthropist” doesn’t even pony up for his own charity, having given only $3.7 million of his own money. Ever.
In fact the only charitable donation on record even remotely connected to 9/11 is one Trump made in 2006 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund. While it may sound worthy, it was rather controversial given that it was a Scientology program that “treated” workers with L. Ron Hubbard’s “Purification Rundown.” And even if you do for some reason count that, it was only for a thousand dollars anyway.
This is not out of date information. Trump’s own “summary of net worth” statement, released as part of his campaign, lists no 9/11 donations. And the New York Daily Newsreported just last year that two separate reviews of Trump’s charitable organization “found just one donation by the Foundation to a 9/11-related cause”, the aforementioned grand to Scientology. The Associated Press also finds evidence of Trump’s supposed charitable side “elusive.’
In response to the Smoking Gun’s report that Trump had not donated to 9/11 charities, his campaign cited donations to the American Red Cross and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Fund as evidence of his giving. These were not listed as 9/11 charities in the comprehensive report from The Foundation Center for the obvious reason that they are not 9/11 charities. You have probably given blood at the Red Cross. This does not make you a 9/11 charity donor either.
As noted above, there was a Red Cross fund set up specifically for 9/11, which Trump neither laid claim to in his statement nor gave to with his charity. He could have named it. He didn’t.
By the way, this big time billionaire “philanthropist” also failed to pitch in after Hurricane Sandy.
So Trump’s charitable organization has made no donations for Hurricane Sandy relief, and no donations for 9/11, despite his New York Values and his frequent invoking of 9/11. He has thrown a paltry grand at a Scientology program, though.
But there is at least one group he was more than happy to pony up for: The Clinton Foundation, to whom he gave $100,000 and a quarter million dollars (at least). Yeah.
Remember Trump's charity is mostly getting easements for his golf courses. Not reaching into his own pocket.
I have no problem with Trump's behaving like Scrooge. I do have a problem with him talking about how generous while behaving like scrooge
Documents Show Donald Trump's New York Values Do NOT Include Giving To 9/11 Charities | RedState
According to a thorough review, Trump didn’t see fit to give any of those millions of dollars he is always bragging about to help out the men, women, children, cops, firefighters, office workers … hey, let’s just call them New Yorkers, who were killed or who lost someone in the terror of September 11th. In fact, his supposedly philanthropic foundation hasn’t given them a single penny.
Take, for example, this 2003 report from The Foundation Center on the “unprecedented outpouring of charitable support that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” On this list of institutional donors you will see no listing for the Donald J. Trump Charitable Foundation. That’s because he made no donation to any of the listed charities set up for victims and families of 9/11.
This donation dearth includes, and this will be important later in the article, the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund, specifically formed for 9/11, to which Trump’s charity also gave zero dollars.
Of course, even if the Foundation had taken part, it wouldn’t have amounted to much. According to this report from Ben Davis, Trump the “ardent philanthropist” doesn’t even pony up for his own charity, having given only $3.7 million of his own money. Ever.
In fact the only charitable donation on record even remotely connected to 9/11 is one Trump made in 2006 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund. While it may sound worthy, it was rather controversial given that it was a Scientology program that “treated” workers with L. Ron Hubbard’s “Purification Rundown.” And even if you do for some reason count that, it was only for a thousand dollars anyway.
This is not out of date information. Trump’s own “summary of net worth” statement, released as part of his campaign, lists no 9/11 donations. And the New York Daily Newsreported just last year that two separate reviews of Trump’s charitable organization “found just one donation by the Foundation to a 9/11-related cause”, the aforementioned grand to Scientology. The Associated Press also finds evidence of Trump’s supposed charitable side “elusive.’
In response to the Smoking Gun’s report that Trump had not donated to 9/11 charities, his campaign cited donations to the American Red Cross and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Fund as evidence of his giving. These were not listed as 9/11 charities in the comprehensive report from The Foundation Center for the obvious reason that they are not 9/11 charities. You have probably given blood at the Red Cross. This does not make you a 9/11 charity donor either.
As noted above, there was a Red Cross fund set up specifically for 9/11, which Trump neither laid claim to in his statement nor gave to with his charity. He could have named it. He didn’t.
By the way, this big time billionaire “philanthropist” also failed to pitch in after Hurricane Sandy.
So Trump’s charitable organization has made no donations for Hurricane Sandy relief, and no donations for 9/11, despite his New York Values and his frequent invoking of 9/11. He has thrown a paltry grand at a Scientology program, though.
But there is at least one group he was more than happy to pony up for: The Clinton Foundation, to whom he gave $100,000 and a quarter million dollars (at least). Yeah.
