$25K to Bundi Not to Investigate Trump}Claimed as Tax Deduction by Trump
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| Trump and FL Top Cop Pam Bondi who changed her mind about Trump right after she got $25K |
I wanted to get someone in the government in Florida to comment about the illegal contribution the Trump FOUNDATION (yes there has been one of those for over 10 yrs which gave a little money at first but then stopped and just hovered there like if it was a tax shelter for a millionaire who has said he doesn’t like to pay taxes). The main is the media reports on the Clinton Foundation for many reasons. …Maybe one of the reasons is because this foundation (the Clinton) has been paying for HIV drugs in Africa, the Philippines, etc. What I mean is they were not flying under the radar like Trump’s but very active doing some good or bad if you believe that.
But you need to know what bad precisely bad they have done and hold them to the same standard as others, is just fair.
No one in the Florida government is talking about one of their peers since most of the important offices in the Tallahassee government are GOP and connected to the Governor Scott and Secretary of State Pam Bondi. Who is going to investigate the top cop when they all fall under her?
Instead I found a very fresh (wed.pm) posting on the Miami Herald. Better yet it was from the Board of Directors. So Maybe if the little media keeps yelling to the main media “hey the real fire is over here” in Bondi-Trump house of surprises, they will put the spot lights on so many things connected to the Trump University law suit and the Trump foundation together with the relationship between Bondi and Trump. The media will never get off the email rehashed story because it gives them rating$ (nothing new there according to the FBI and to people that have managed to read most of what is been put out there) So keep with the emails; But for the sake of something! Let’s look at the other guy, he is not clean and he has never helped anyone but has hurt vet groups and others that he promised money from the foundation but never gave any even though in cases such as Bondi,
Trump got benefits from not having the secretary of state investigate him which for the low price of $25K. But then he had the gull to declared it as a tax deduction. Only The Donald will allegedly bribe a public official and then claimed it as a tax deduction. Actually he didn't have to pay that much. A Presidential candidate asking for a favor carries more cloud than the American Express Black card.
Pam Bondi received $25K from Trump since this money was part of the fundraiser he was doing for her.
We only know of this case because the IRS found out and he paid a penalty. The other cases we don’t know because we don’t have his tax returns. “Let’s stop asking him for the tax returns because he gets pissed when you ask him. Let’s talk about the emails better.” Wrong!!
The media is made Trump candidacy a reality not a dream and now it will be so sad if it helped to elect him by concentrating on one story they have on hand and ignore all the others already out of the bushes.
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Isn’t it terrible about those connections between the candidate’s foundation and charitable donations that changed hands in what appeared to be play-to-pay? Yes, it is. And now, at last, the Internal Revenue Service has agreed by levying a fine on the foundation for violating the rules that bar political donations by the charities.
Don’t expect Donald Trump to apologize, however. As per custom, his campaign refused to respond to questions by a Times/Herald reporter.
What? You thought we were talking about Hillary Clinton? Don’t blame you. A lot has been made over the Clinton Foundation and its connections to her when she was head of the State Department.
This newspaper, among many others, has chided her for failing to sever the connection with the foundation so as to eliminate the appearance of a conflict of interest. But despite all the innuendo and suggestions of wrongdoing — despite all the outrage generated by the right-wing attack machine — no actual conflict or legal violation has turned up, even with armies of investigators working feverishly to discover wrongdoing that apparently isn’t there.
What attracted far less attention than the numerous stories about the Clinton/Foundation connection was news disclosed by the Washington Post that Donald Trump paid a penalty to the IRS involving a $25,000 gift by the Trump Foundation.
The recipient was a political committee called And Justice for All controlled by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. As a registered nonprofit, the Trump Foundation was not allowed to make political donations. The gift violated federal regulations.
That the gift was given and received is not in dispute. The transaction took place. After the IRS action, Mr. Trump reimbursed the foundation and paid the $2,500 fine personally, according to a spokesman for the Trump Organization.
The rest remains murky, and, so far, riddled with contractions and misdirection. Originally, for example, the Trump Foundation said it gave the money to another group in Kansas with a similar name to Ms. Bondi’s political group. Then it blamed a clerical error and said it should have come from Mr. Trump’s account, not from his foundation.
More serious are the questions about why the money was given and how it came about.
Ms. Bondi has admitted that she personally solicited a donation from the candidate. Around the same time, Ms. Bondi’s office said it was weighing an investigation into allegations of fraud against scandal-ridden Trump University. Ms. Bondi, one of Mr. Trump’s top supporters in Florida, ultimately decided not to pursue the case or join New York and other states in a lawsuit.
Mr. Trump has insisted that he never spoke to her about the investigations. “She’s a fine person, beyond reproach. I never even spoke to her about it at all. She’s a fine person. Never spoken to her about it, never,” the candidate said Monday while campaigning in Ohio.
It may all be completely innocent. What is puzzling, given the blanket coverage of the Clinton Foundation, is why the report of a foundation linked to a presidential nominee giving money to an attorney general weighing an investigation of an alleged scam involving the nominee should not get equal billing.
Unlike the faux scandal over the Clinton institution, there were actual victims here — people who paid good money to Trump University and feel they were duped. Why is Pam Bondi not investigating that?
MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD
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