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."
Yeah, Ted Cruz, the guy who has always stood up for you and me and America. You should be ashamed, but you won’t be! Your hero Trump is a lying bum.
“God bless you, Naps! I always thought you were a great guy but now I know it!”
Oh. I thought naps was female. With small children.(coordinating naps...)
Funny how one gets weird ideas about screen names. or is it just me. I’ve had a lot think I’m a guy, but I thought cottonball was a rather feminine name.
No, said Trump’s very own 990 tax forms!
And you cherry picked the results to suit what you wanted it to say.
NOT HONEST. AT all.
Ted “Mr. Establishment” Cruz got my back?
lol. A lot of people think that. I don’t blame you. The name means Naval Academy Preparatory School Coordinator. I was in charge of the Midshipmen up in Newport Rhode Island going to a year prep school after high school before going into the Naval Academy. The Midshipmen just need a little extra help before going to the Naval Academy. It is a successful program.
thxu for posting this I did not realize Trump helped make this happen for the Vets :)
http://sheborg.blogspot.com/2015/11/1985-donald-trump-donates-1-million-to.html
If you weren’t blinded by Trump, you’d realize that too. Without Cruz, amnesty would already be a done deal, Friend. Who would you favor if Trump withdrew? Jeb!?
Whatever you say St Michael!
LOL We could use St Michael around here. And I’m not even Catholic.
People who think this constant barrage of nitpicking stupid stuff hurts Trump are fools. The average Joe America, regardless of who he likes in the election, does not like to see a fellow citizen undergo personal attack all day long by a still powerful (but not for long), bullying news media.
Pastor Ted is Jesus. He walks on water, therefore so do they.
They are sanctimonious stinkpots.
Oh, neat! I bet that was rewarding, because you had an incredible group of students. (unlike my one semester teaching high school...)
My nephew went to the Naval Academy. I thought he went right out of high school but he could’ve gone somewhere else and still called it the Academy. Do all attending go through your program?
I am Catholic but somehow I think you figured that out.
If he fails to use his foundation funds for vets, we will hear about it like have have heard about the sham Clinton foundation.
Remember Poppy Bush and their long lost son, Clinton, collecting those millions and not funding Haitian needs? It all went into the Clinton Foundation...
Not all foundations are scam artists like Clinton and Ford.
Oh no. Only 400 go to the Prep school. If you nephew went directly to the Academy then he didn’t need the extra help. Congratulation to your nephew and thank him and your family for his dedication to the United States of America. We need all the young people like your nephew we can to ensure our future is secure.
It was most definitely rewarding. It is so exciting to see them graduate from the Academy 4 years after finishing the program. One particular student was an enlisted guy who was not that great in high school.....goofed off, partied, etc, but was very good in the military so we gave him a chance. He finished the prep school and then went to the Academy, he finished in the top 10 percent and went to MIT for a Master’s Degree and has done very well. He is a Lieutenant Commander now, married with two kids and is a success story. That might be the biggest success story but we have thousands that have done great and have done great work for the country.
You’re disgusting. You sound just like Donald Trump.
Please, already. Yeah, more like #cruzequalsamnesty
Think so.
i guess i don’t understand what the problem is.
Trump has established a non-profit, charitable foundation whose purpose it is to collect money to help vets. There are many such non-profit charitable foundations supporting vets that have many different names. This non-profit, charitable foundation is named the Donald J. Trump foundation. And the web site twice says that’s the foundation’s name on the donation page.
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