“We believe that Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General, and Donald Trump have violated federal voting laws including but not limited to bribery across state lines by way of a $25,000 campaign contribution from Trump to Bondi during her 2013 election by way of the Trump Foundation in return for AG Bondi dropping an investigation into Trump University”.
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Again discussing campaign contributions, this time at a rally in Iowa early this year, Trump declared: “When I call, they kiss my ass, OK?” And you know what?
Donald Trump is nothing if he isn’t exceptional, and he’s had plenty to say about his campaign contributions and his expectations as a donor. When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. Bondi ultimately chose not to initiate a probe, and Trump later hosted a campaign event for her, according to The Huffington Post.
Trump Foundation’s sizable 2014 gift to the Citizens United Foundation marked the first time it had ever donated to the group, and was “by far the largest” gift the foundation gave to any organization that year, according to the report.
Schneiderman was the only attorney general to pursue allegations that Trump’s seminar program used misleading marketing materials to encourage students to sign up for costly real estate courses that were essentially worthless.
“He uses his foundation’s money to pay off your attorney general”, the former President said about claims that Trump made an illegal charity donation to Bondi around the same time her office considered joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University.
A Schneiderman spokesman suggested in a statement to Yahoo that Trump’s donation was motivated by political spite.
It happened to come as the Citizens United foundation, which is part of a GOP activist network run by Trump’s newly-hired deputy campaign manager, David Bossie, was pursuing a lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for his efforts to require nonprofit groups to disclose the identity of their donors.
“If Donald Trump has proven anything over the past three years, it’s that he’ll do anything to pursue his weird but predictable vendetta against this office”, Eric Soufer said.
The Washington Post reported that the IRS fined the charity over that donation last week.
The following month, during a nationally televised debate, he said: “I was a businessman”.
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There are obvious reasons why Trump would deny that he engaged in a pay-for-play scheme.
