Posted on 01/28/2016 1:19:00 PM PST by conservativejoy
Rather than going directly to veterans groups, 100% of online donations on Trump's pro-veterans site will go directly to Trump's personal foundation.
After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week's Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans. Trump even set up a special website to solicit donations to help veterans.
"Honor their valor," the website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, states. "Donate now to help our Veterans."
The website, which is nothing more than a single page with stock photos and a credit card donation form, claims that "100% of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs."
There's only one problem: 100% of the money raised on the site goes directly to Donald Trump's personal non-profit foundation, according to a disclosure listed at the bottom of the page.
"The Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization," the disclosure reads. "An email confirmation with a summary of your donation will be sent to the email address provided above."
Trump Non Profit Vets
Confirmation e-mails sent to individuals who contributed via the website confirm that rather than going directly to veterans, all contributions made from the site go directly to Donald Trump's personal foundation.
"The Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and acknowledges that no goods or services were provided to you in return for your contribution," the confirmation e-mail states. "This letter is your receipt and should be kept with your tax records."
A separate confirmation page that loads after donations are made on the site contains the same language noting that the contribution was made to the Donald J Trump Foundation, not to a distinct veterans organization with a history of directly supporting veterans and their families.
According to the domain registry information for Trump's site, the domain was not registered until Thursday morning. The firm that registered the domain, Florida-based Parscale Media, also designed Trump's official presidential campaign website.
Trump's personal non-profit foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, does not have a history of donating much money to veterans or to veterans' causes. According to a recent analysis of the organization's spending history by the Weekly Standard, Trump's non-profit donated more money to the Clinton Foundation than it did to veterans causes.
Between 2009 and 2013, Trump's non-profit donated between $100,001 and $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Over the same period of time, Trump's group gave only $57,000 to veterans groups. A 2015 analysis by Forbes noted that barely 1 percent of the Donald J. Trump Foundation's $5.5 million worth of donations betwen 2009 and 2013 went to organizations that support military veterans:
The Donald J. Trump Foundation has donated $5.5 million to 298 charities between 2009 and 2013 (the most recent year available), according to the non-profit's 990 tax forms from those years. Of that, only $57,000 has been donated to seven organizations that directly benefit military veterans or their families, Forbes found. Wounded Warriors was not among the organizations Trump's foundation gave to in that time period.
Forbes also found that Trump, who we estimate is worth $4.5 billion, has not made personal contributions to his foundation during the same time period. We reached out to his spokespeople for comment, but did not hear back before publishing.
Trump made waves last July when he attacked Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam prisoner of war who was imprisoned for years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton torture camp, for being captured by enemy troops.
"I don't like losers," Trump said during an event moderated by GOP focus group guru Frank Luntz. Trump was referring to McCain.
But he's a war hero," moderator Frank Luntz interjected. "He's a war hero!"
"He's not a 'war hero,'" Trump responded. "He's a 'war hero' because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you."
We did. He gave more to the Clinton Foundation than he did to Veterans. We of course wouldn’t know that if it hadn’t been for Trumps antics this weeks. But now everyone knows. The majority of his donations go to Democrat constituencies. You and the rest of the Trumpette cheerleaders should be voting the Democrat primary.
Or he can give it to the Clinton Foundation.
He’s donated more $ to Democrats.
That is a domain name. It is nothing more, or less.
I’ll be watching tonight! Should be fun.
Yeah. I can’t believe the people in lines waiting to get into Trump’s event. It is amazing considering the amount of time they were given to get this together. On the news, they said they never saw anything like it before. That is a pretty amazing statement.
I didn’t know anything about it - I was reading and not paying attention to the news. Roger Ailes is undoubtedly rolling around on the floor chewing the carpet!
So that’s the website right? Not a foundation.
FIXED: “I have read today that Trump has donated $57,000 of his $10,000,000,000 to veterans’ causes throughout his 69 years. That’s a whopping .0000057% of his wealth!” said Bernie Sanders.
So from his foundation the money will be distributed to various veterans groups. Where exactly do you want the money to be held in the meantime?
Nonissue.
“You Cruz folks should not throw stones. Ted has a bad history with ethics in his finances.”
The instances of hypocrisy within Cruz land never ends.
LOL, awesome, naps!
SMART MOVE - rather than trusting sites run by LEFT-WING types posing as supporting veterans, Trump is making sure that the money GOES WHERE IT IS NEEDED.
The guy is AMAZING.
“Considering the fact that the site was just put up this morning, and they have raised over $180,000 already”
Amazing!
An hour ! OMG I wish.
Just donated, thanks for the link.
The site says they’ve raised a quarter of a million already!
HA! Well, that’s rich. The Ten Commandments don’t apply to y’all’s particular sect of ‘’Christianity?
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