News of the IRS fine came amid ongoing controversy around the Clinton Foundation – tied to Trump’s opponent.
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October 15: Bondi’s office hands over documents to CREW indicating that it told reporters that it was never considering joining the NY lawsuit. I would never take money.
In assessing that “series of coincidences and errors”, it’s important to remember that Trump has bragged, openly and without apparent shame, about buying politicians with donations, known in shorthand as “pay to play”.
Bondi was among several attorneys general in different states weighing allegations against the now-defunct for-profit Trump University – which promised to teach students courses in real estate and entrepreneurship – after former students said the program didn’t deliver what was promised by instructors and marketing materials.
“There was no basis for any investigation into Trump University because at the time of the original media inquiries in 2013, this Office had received only one consumer complaint”, spokesman Whitney Ray said in an emailed statement.
But Trump, in the sky over OH aboard his private plane, told reporters the same day that he never spoke to Bondi and, in response to the criticism of Trump University, said, “Many of the attorney generals turned that case down because I’ll win that case in court”.
The Trump campaign declined to comment for this story.
Additionally, Bondi’s solicitation of the $25,000 donation is the subject of a Florida ethics complaint filed this June by J. Whitfield Larrabee, a MA lawyer. And she’s done an fantastic job as the attorney general of Florida.
September 17: The Trump Foundation makes a $25,000 contribution to a PAC backing Bondi.
During a rally in Iowa earlier this year, Trump said he had to give big donations so that politicians would do what he wanted. “Donald Trump has admitted that he knows how the system works and that he has worked with both Democrats and Republicans and that money has been exchanged”.
“I don’t think this was a lengthy, memorable call”, Hicks said. And do you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. Trump Organization representatives said Trump reimbursed the foundation $25,000 from his personal account afterward. Under oath, he said he had circumvented the state’s $50,000 individual and $5,000 corporate contribution limits by disbursing his contributions to Stein, the city councilman, through 18 subsidiary companies.
Later, Trump’s campaign spokeswoman said that Trump had actually spoken to Bondi but only about the donation. Hicks said Tuesday that the improper foundation check was the result of a series of clerical errors, and that the billionaire businessman had meant to support Bondi with personal funds.
“And in Trump’s office too”, Halperin agreed.
In the 1990s, the Federal Election Commission fined Mr. Trump for exceeding the annual limit on campaign contributions by $47,050, the largest violation in a single year.
Trump continued, knocking the Foundation’s role in job development after the natural disaster.
Trump has used his manipulation of the political system to demean his opponents and as proof that as president he will have special skills in working the system from the other side.
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The group was a fake institute, ultimately tied to Trump. 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. Bondi was considering joining Schneiderman’s lawsuit, according to reports, when she solicited Trump for donations to her re-election campaign, The Associated Press reported.
