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Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet
washingtonpost.com ^ | 7/1/2016 | David A. Fahrenthold

Posted on 07/01/2016 11:33:03 AM PDT by rktman

Did Donald Trump violate IRS rules, by using a charity's money to buy himself a signed football helmet?

Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction. The items up for sale: A Denver Broncos helmet, autographed by then-star quarterback Tim Tebow, and a Tebow jersey.

Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000. Afterward, he posed with the helmet. His purchase made gossip-column news: a flourish of generosity, by a mogul with money to burn. "The Donald giveth, and The Donald payeth," wrote the Palm Beach Daily News. "Blessed be the name of The Donald."

But Trump didn't actually pay with his own money.

Instead, the Susan G. Komen organization — the breast-cancer nonprofit that hosted the party — got a $12,000 payment from another nonprofit , the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

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To: OttawaFreeper

A plaything Trumps 4 Dead Americans even when including a Gay one:-)


41 posted on 07/01/2016 11:52:49 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: rktman

I’m laughing at the moron who posted that this shows Trump “stole from breast cancer research.”

Liberals are so stupid.


42 posted on 07/01/2016 11:55:52 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: rktman

Gotta laugh, the WAPO’s all out effort to topple the Donald. I wish they would spend at least as 10% of the time on looking into the Clintons et.al. as they do with the 100% on Trump. I’m sure they would find a plethora of scandals. (You do know what a plethora is?)


43 posted on 07/01/2016 11:56:36 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
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To: rktman

The dog days of summer.

Getting weaker and weaker as time goes on.

Poor Washington Post, probably can’t afford any real journalists any more.


44 posted on 07/01/2016 11:59:47 AM PDT by detch (")
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To: rktman

YEP!! He’s gone and done it....broke the camels back...That’s it for me ...no second serving of pudding/vote for Trump!! (sarc)


45 posted on 07/01/2016 12:05:09 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: rktman

Is that sumtin like setting up a foundation in another country having non disclosure laws you need to hide your doings from your home country has laws making certain things illegal ??

Let’s check with the Klintoons, they know how it’s done.... NUFF SAID !


46 posted on 07/01/2016 12:07:25 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: proust
"Wapo’s gang of 20."

A bunch of desperate f'n arseholes - good luck boy's, you're gonna have more luck getting layed after your gender reassignment then getting Trump off the ticket!

47 posted on 07/01/2016 12:07:31 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: rktman

If I run a 5K race for charity, and they give me a T-shirt for participating, is that a crime?

It sounds like this is the same.


48 posted on 07/01/2016 12:12:23 PM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: rktman; proust; harwood; Lexington Green; madprof98
The Washington Post finds another possible Trump gum wrapper in the 10 square mile Hillary Clinton Memorial Toxic Landfill...

It's a "possible", boys! Move those mounds of Clinton toxic waste so's we can get a better look at it!

Clinton @sslamprey David A. Fahrenthold sews his own face onto the tail-end of the Hillary Clinton Human Centipede, again.

49 posted on 07/01/2016 12:16:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: rktman

As long as they weren’t mining uranium with the helmet, the media will show interest in this story.


50 posted on 07/01/2016 12:17:42 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: jazusamo

The Washington Post is up to its eyeballs in Hillary Clinton toxic sewage, but all they can see is the gum wrapper that Trump might have dropped...


51 posted on 07/01/2016 12:19:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: rktman

Another Washington Post hit piece.

You know, the kind they aren’t running on Hillary.


52 posted on 07/01/2016 12:20:01 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: rktman

Sounds like Trump made another good deal !


53 posted on 07/01/2016 12:20:36 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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To: proust
20 people working night and day, unlimited budget, and this is what they find?

I have 2 words for these creeps: Clinton Foundation.

54 posted on 07/01/2016 12:22:20 PM PDT by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change.)
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To: exDemMom
Too bad WaPo has no curiosity about the billions laundered by the Clinton foundation.

The Washington Post had to swim across a stinking toxic Clinton sewer the size of the Mississippi River to get to the little Trump puddle on the other side so they could "report" on ANOTHER Trump "malfeasance"...

55 posted on 07/01/2016 12:22:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: kiryandil

Exactly, that’s a great way of putting it.


56 posted on 07/01/2016 12:29:49 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Fido969

I’ve been over at the compo..whoops, WaPo site and those commenters are just looney. Loved the one that put up a link to the about page of the Clinton Foundation to prove that the foundation was for noble efforts!

Yes, they are stupid.


57 posted on 07/01/2016 12:30:55 PM PDT by kozanne
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To: rktman

Wouldn’t the Trump foundation’s donors WANT him to distribute the money for good purposes, such as breast cancer?


58 posted on 07/01/2016 12:31:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: rktman

Washington Post????????!!!!!!!!! right....


59 posted on 07/01/2016 12:31:42 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: rktman

Trump a fan of Tim Tebow? I like him better everyday.


60 posted on 07/01/2016 12:31:57 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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