Posted on 01/29/2016 4:14:26 AM PST by elhombrelibre
The GOP frontrunner talks about his love for vets—but his foundation gave far more to the Clintons over the years than any group that helps military veterans.
Donald Trump decided to ditch Thursday night’s debate to raise money for veterans instead. The only problem is the money is going directly to The Donald J. Trump Foundation—an organization that has given more to the Clintons than to the troops.
Trump’s campaign launched donaldtrumpforvets.com today in advance of his showy counter event in Iowa during the Republican debate. The site, featuring the image of a Ukrainian actor posing as a soldier, promises that “100% of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs.â€
“Donnie always looks for a return on his money.”
So you mean he’s a capitalist?
The Daily Beast up there with the Bible if it trashes Trump? /s
Posting from the Daily Beast now? I guess there is no turd you won’t roll in.
Really? Really? I understand his Foundation took in a quarter million and that the list of whom will receive the money won’t be released until 2018. But hey, if he says he donated $1 Million, it must be true and not the hyperbole that he likes to say is how you make a deal.
I wonder how much trickled into Clinton’s back pocket from his Haitian earthquake relief? For a look into this scandal, read:
you’re hysterical!! :)
so that makes trump great.
it’s also a lie. you can go to heck for that!
I confess. It’s cognitively dissonant.
The Trump supporters do not want someone who can be bought, they seem to prefer the one who buys access over one who sells it.
Again, that sounds like anti prostitution but pro John.
that’s your reply to the truth?
i dont care how he spends his personal money, but dont give a silly answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
You mean he donated a Million bucks to his own foundation, don’t you?
(Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))
John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815-March 19, 1900) was an American Republican congressman from the U.S. state of Ohio, judge advocate in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson. He is also the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The first section of the second article of the Constitution uses the language, a natural-born citizen. It thus assumes that citizenship may be acquired by birth. Undoubtedly, this language of the Constitution was used in reference to that principle of public law, well understood in this country at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, which referred citizenship to the place of birth.
Justice Curtis in his dissenting opinion of the Dred Scott decision and speaking specifically of natural born citizens and article II, section I, clause 5
It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth however derives its force sometimes from place and sometimes from parentage, but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will therefore be unnecessary to investigate any other.
James Madison
The doctrine of the common law is that every man born within its jurisdiction is a subject of the sovereign of the country where he is born, and allegiance is not personal to the sovereign in the extent that has been contended for; it is due to him in his political capacity of sovereign of the territory where the person owing the allegiance as born.
Kilham v. Ward 2 Mass. 236, 26 (1806)
As the President is required to be a native citizen of the United States. Natives are all persons born within the jurisdiction and allegiance of the United States.
James Kent, COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW (1826)
That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, A very respectable political writer makes the following pertinent remarks upon this subject. Prior to the adoption of the constitution, the people inhabiting the different states might be divided into two classes: natural born citizens, or those born within the state, and aliens, or such as were born out of it.
St. George Tucker, BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES (1803)
Allegiance is nothing more than the tie or duty of obedience of a subject to the sovereign under whose protection he is, and allegiance by birth is that which arises from being born within the dominions and under the protection of a particular sovereign. Two things usually concur to create citizenship: first, birth locally within the dominions of the sovereign, and secondly, birth within the protection and obedience, or, in other words, within the allegiance of the sovereign.That the father and mother of the demandant were British born subjects is admitted. If he was born before 4 July, 1776, it is as clear that he was born a British subject. If he was born after 4 July, 1776, and before 15 September, 1776 [the date the British occupied New York], he was born an American citizen, whether his parents were at the time of his birth British subjects or American citizens. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children even of aliens born in a country while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government and owing a temporary allegiance thereto are subjects by birth.
Justice Story, concurring opinion,Inglis v. Sailorsâ Snug Harbor, 3 Pet. 99, 155,164. (1830)
The country where one is born, how accidental soever his birth in that place may have been, and although his parents belong to another country, is that to which he owes allegiance. Hence the expression natural born subject or citizen, & all the relations thereout growing. To this there are but few exceptions, and they are mostly introduced by statutes and treaty regulations, such as the children of seamen and ambassadors born abroad, and the like.
Leake v. Gilchrist, 13 N.C. 73 (N.C. 1829)
Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.
William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States, pg. 86 (1829)
The right of citizenship never descends in the legal sense, either by the common law or under the common naturalization acts. It is incident to birth in the country, or it is given personally by statute. The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle
Horace Binney, American Law Register, 2 Amer.Law Reg.193, 203, 204, 206, 208 (February 1854).
That all natural born citizens, or persons born within the limits of the United States, and all aliens subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned, may inherit real estate and make their pedigree by descent from any ancestor lineal or collateral.
January 28, 1838, Acts of the State of Tennessee passed at the General Assembly, pg. 266 (1838)
The term citizen, was used in the constitution as a word, the meaning of which was already established and well understood. And the constitution itself contains a direct recognition of the subsisting common law principle, in the section which defines the qualification of the President. The only standard which then existed, of a natural born citizen, was the rule of the common law, and no different standard has been adopted since. Suppose a person should be elected President who was native born, but of alien parents, could there be any reasonable doubt that he was eligible under the constitution? I think not.
Lynch vs. Clarke (NY 1844)
Every person, then, born in the country, and that shall have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States, is eligible to the office of president.
Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitionality of Slavery, pg. 119 (1845)
It is the very essence of the condition of a natural born citizen, of one who is a member of the state by birth within and under it, that his rights are not derived from the mere will of the state.
The New Englander, Vol. III, pg. 434 (1845)
This is called becoming naturalized; that is, becoming entitled to all the rights and privileges of natural born citizens, or citizens born in this country.
Andrew White Young, First lessons in Civil Government, pg. 82 (1856).
The Constitution itself does not make the citizens, (it is. in fact,made by them.) It only intends and recognizes such of them as are naturalâ€â€home-bornâ€â€and provides for the naturalization of such of them as were alienâ€â€foreign-bornâ€â€making the latter, as far as nature will allow, like the former.
Attorney General Bates, Opinion of Citizenship, (1862)
All persons born in the allegiance of the king are natural-born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens. Birth and allegiance go together. Such is the rule of the common law, and it is the common law of this country, as well as of England.
Justice Swayne, United States v. Rhodes, 1 Abbott, US 28 (Cir. Ct. Ky 1866)
Natural-born Citizens, those that are born within the jurisdiction of a national government; i.e., in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens, temporarily residing abroad.
William Cox Cochran, The student's law lexicon: a dictionary of legal words and phrases : with appendices, Pg. 185 (1888)
Citizens are either natural-born or naturalized. One who is born in the United States or under its jurisdiction is a natural-born citizen without reference to the nationality of his parents. Their presence here constitutes a temporary allegiance, sufficient to make a child a citizen.
Theodore Dwight, Edward Dwight, Commentaries on the law of persons and personal property, pg. 125 (1894)
The notion that there is any common law principle to naturalize the children born in foreign countries, of native-born American father and mother, father or mother, must be discarded. There is not, and never was, any such common law principle.
Binney on Alienigenae, 14, 20; 2 Amer.Law Reg.199, 203
Please, I see a lot Trump supporters post stuff from Politico and MSNBC so spare me the phony outrage.
The facts they present from his Tax Forms support the fact that he gave more to the Clintons than to the Veterans. Now, would you want this not reported? Would you like to pretend, as Trump wants you to, that he is who he says he is based upon his word and not his deeds? I thought so.
Why don’t you sue or better yet why don’t your demigod sue?
Donald Trump was a private citizen for all his life, before he decided to try to help this country and the lynching mob took aim at him. As a private citizen, he gave to many. And there were money grabbers after his money. He has shared his wealth unselfishly. Those who hate Trump use everything he ever did.. and turn it against him. I did not know there was this lynch mob out here, dressed as American citizens. It’s eye opening to see just who has that hate for another American citizen, just because you don’t agree.
This race isn’t just people running for office. It’s turned into a hate fest with destruction being the goal.
There is a criminal running for President and you’d rather destroy Trump. You are so warped in your priorities, it’s shocking. This country is being taken to an abyss by obama, the left and the media.. but you are hell bent on what Trump did years ago.. whether it’s truth or not.. you want to take him down... while the real danger is on the other side.
This establishment mentality is the danger. It’s a group of people who want the power over all of us.. forever.. and our freedoms are at stake. The GOP is dangerously soft, weak, and useless.. while attacking anyone who would save our land. The left wants to divide our nation and keep their power in tact. A wealthy class and the rest poor. That is socialism. We would never recover from that if they succeed.
The priorities are so screwed, it’s turned everything upside down. This nation is full of spoiled citizens who have had it so comfy they do not know what hard times are about.
be careful. bashing the Donald may prove dangerous down the road :)
someone might show up at your door :)
he could shoot a NYer on fifth avenue and not lose any votes, and with my luck, it would be me lol.
but as a fellow NYer, i’m always impressed by a good con, and this is one of the better ones.
however, since he will be next pres, i wish him wellfor all of us.
he wont be a conservative, that’s fantastic thinking, but he will be a nationalist and maybe for 4 or 8 years, that will suffice.
I was weighing my vote, Cruz is a good man.
the sad fact of the matter is that regardless who goes up against the Democrat in November, the Electoral College math is so stacked against him/her as to be impossible to overcome...see the 270 to Win interactive EV map, and try to ome to any other reasonable conclusion...
I doubt if they ever gave anything. I’m not vetting them either. I’ve always been against them, and unlike Donald Trump, I’ve never voted for them, praised them, hobnobbed with them, or given them money.
money to veterans is a contribution
money to the clintons is a business expense
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