The donation was made more than three years after the probe, which led to Trump University ending operations in Texas. On Wednesday, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway found herself fending off questions from George Stephanopoulos of ABC on whether her boss used a big political donation to sway Florida’s attorney general into skipping an investigation into Trump University, reports Politico. The donation violated federal tax regulations because it came from his charitable organization, the Trump Foundation.
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Although Trump did not write Bondi a check that night, he and his daughter Ivanka each donated $500 to Bondi in the fall of 2013.
Trump reportedly paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty this year because his foundation broke tax laws by making a political contribution to Bondi in 2013 when she was in the midst of deciding whether to pursue an investigation against Trump University.
“Bondi declined repeated requests for an interview on Monday, referring all questions to Marc Reichelderfer, a political consultant who worked for her most re-election effort”. Bondi solicited the donation as her office debated whether to join a lawsuit against Trump University. “As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do”, Trump told the Wall Street Journal a year ago. In short order, the $25,000 donation check arrived from Trump, who later called Bondi “a fabulous representative of the people”.
The March 14, 2014, reception at Trump’s Palm Beach resort featured the billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as special guests, and cost attendees a “suggested minimum contribution” of $3,000, according to an invitation to the event published by The Huffington Post. The so-called university has been under investigation by the New York Attorney General’s Office, and a class action lawsuit was also filed in California. “And the problems went away”. When I call, they kiss my ass. While the media assists Trump’s mudslinging, it has ignored a world of highly unflattering stories about the Donald because bashing a powerful woman obviously sells ad space. “When I call, they kiss my ass”. “And do you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me”.
Donald Trump’s new “pay to play” trouble continues to generate negative headlines for the candidate. “Our first priority is to get their money back and to re-establish the legitimacy of educational institutions in NY state”, is how Attorney General Eric Schneiderman described his case against Trump, whom he calls “someone who was absolutely shameless in his willingness to lie to people, to say whatever it took to induce them into his phony seminars”. How can she run for Pres.
While rejecting any allegations of wrongdoing on his part, Trump continued to attack “Crooked Hillary” because some donors to the Clinton Foundation got meetings with Clinton when she was secretary of state.
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Adding fuel to the fire, a recent email dump revealed that half of the private citizens Clinton met with as Sec. of State were donors to the Clinton foundation.
