Discussion: Trump Family Aide: Some Donations To Trump's Foundation Are 'His Money'

Shorter Trump: How does it matter where my money is? Its mine. I dont pay taxes and will never do it. I save every penny to become a billionaire.

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He thinks all the money in the foundation is his money. Thatā€™s the problem.

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Even if this is true, it still doesnā€™t allow him to pay legal settlements using that money. And it still doesnā€™t allow him to buy artwork for personal use using that money. It just doesnā€™t.

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Another tax dodgeā€¦ Put the money in my charity (both Donald and the payee get a tax dodge) and Iā€™ll spend it from there.

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Even if this made sense, which it doesnā€™t, and passed the smell test, which it doesnā€™t, the obvious follow up is why he had them pay into his foundation rather than to him directly.

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If Trump is elected president, weā€™ll replace that corrupt Obama IRS director with the brilliant Ms. Patton. Then, she can explain to us that a lot of the money in the US Treasury actually is ā€œMr. Trumpā€™s money.ā€ After all, thatā€™s how Putin does it.

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Oh, for the love of God.

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Wants to run the government like a businessā€¦ but has a terrible business record, and a problem with managing money?

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Maybe Donald can promise to legalize slush funds for all Americans. That would fix everything wouldnā€™t it?

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What a fool Iā€™ve been these many years! If only Iā€™d known that I could redirect income to a charitable foundation that I set up and controlled and then paid my bills from that account and used it for personal travel, purchases, etc. I could have saved tens or even hundreds of thousands in taxes over these decades.

No wonder Iā€™m not a bazillionaire - Iā€™m clearly not as smart as the smartest man in the world.

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Wants to ruin the government like his businessā€¦

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MSM?
IRS?
DOJ?
WTF?
ASAP,
OK?
CYAā€¦

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? First off, if Trump REALLY thought this way he is breaking a number of laws and for his surrogate to echo it? JHC it boggles the mind. And these nimrods ā€˜thinkā€™ they should be running the countryā€¦

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Thatā€™s just dog-ate-homework laughably lame. What Trump did is straight-up self dealing, outrageously brazen and for very large amounts. I imagine his contributors would have some questions as well about using charitable contributions to pay a chiselerā€™s legal fees, except as far as I can tell the contributions are often extorted from contractors or are in the nature of kickbacks, essentially. There are mobsters whoā€™ve been more respectful of the law and the intelligence of its enforcers than this freak.

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Another thought: does Trump include his charity $ when calculating his worth?

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Letā€™s see your taxes Mr. Trump. I suspect they are fraudulent.

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Iā€™d think so. If youā€™re including in your calculations somewhere between eight and ten billion dollars that are purely imaginary, excluding the ones in a charitable foundation would be pointless overscrupulousness.

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Any evidence?

The money going into the Trump Foundation has tax benefits because it is supposed to be a non profit right? So, Trump should have to pay taxes on any money that is his personally. If it was Trumpā€™s money it should have gone into his personal bank account for having earned which means taxable.

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