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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: rktman

Hillary sacrificing our national security and trading government favors to enemies for per$onal gain? Threatening officials to stay out of jail? No problem.

Trump getting a helmet from a charity? Well, he doesn’t have the right character to be President, clearly.


61 posted on 07/01/2016 12:32:46 PM PDT by Yaelle (Donald Trump vs. Bipartisan Oligarchy)
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To: rktman
Daivd Fahrenthold - gay as the day is long:

gayboy's twitter pic

Cankles is the politics equivalent of Bette Midler for these Postie gay Bobs...

62 posted on 07/01/2016 12:33:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: rktman

Bwa ha ha ha. Oh, Washington comPost. You’re hilarious!!!


63 posted on 07/01/2016 12:33:28 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: proust

Bingo.


64 posted on 07/01/2016 12:34:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: Lazamataz

A democrat can eat a baby, live on TV, and the news media will cheer her and tell us the infant had it coming.

A conservative can sit quietly in a church and the news media will call for his impeachment for loitering.


Man I just kissed your butt on another thread and now I have to do it again!

This post wins the webs.


65 posted on 07/01/2016 12:34:22 PM PDT by Yaelle (Donald Trump vs. Bipartisan Oligarchy)
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To: rktman
Tomrrow's headline:

TRUMP EATS PUPPIES!

Umm, sorry, Obama already did that.

66 posted on 07/01/2016 12:34:39 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: kiryandil

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...


Yep! Well said!


67 posted on 07/01/2016 12:35:31 PM PDT by Yaelle (Donald Trump vs. Bipartisan Oligarchy)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I attended functions where businesses were involved in charity auctions.... then took tax deductions on the money spent. For a foundation to do the same appears to me to be completely legal. I assume the Trump foundation owns the helmet and in turn can donate it or whatever.


68 posted on 07/01/2016 12:37:15 PM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: rktman

so he donated the football to charity....so they could sell it....?


69 posted on 07/01/2016 12:37:56 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump presidency will be like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
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To: harwood

Omar Mateen, Islamic Terrorist. Hillary Supporter. Where is his wife?

Washington comPost not interested.

70 posted on 07/01/2016 12:39:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: Yaelle

WaPo has their collective knickers in knots! How much fun can I possibly have before the election?

;^)


71 posted on 07/01/2016 12:40:24 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rktman

Charities give to other charities all the time. I didn’t see a big commotion when the cancer society donated money to Planned Parenthood...


72 posted on 07/01/2016 12:42:38 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: rktman

“How many folks have been tricked/fooled into supporting a particular charity only to find that 98% of the “gatherings” have gone for admin purposes? I’m thinking a LOT of people.”

I was a couple times. Then I started checking online. Easy to do! There are several charity rating sites.


73 posted on 07/01/2016 12:44:11 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Smittie
Charities give to other charities all the time. I didn’t see a big commotion when the cancer society donated money to Planned Parenthood...

Funny thing about that planned parenthood, they receive millions in government money, but turn around and donate millions to Democrats?

How is that legal? Where in the Washington Compost on that story?
74 posted on 07/01/2016 12:46:47 PM PDT by arl295
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To: proust

On Anagrammer; enter Washington Post will give one * Wasting Protons*.
Apropos!


75 posted on 07/01/2016 12:52:08 PM PDT by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: rktman

Trump makes a $12,000 donation to charity and gets smeared by the WAPO. How much money has the WAPO given to anybody?


76 posted on 07/01/2016 12:56:32 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yup. Ussd them myself.


77 posted on 07/01/2016 1:03:06 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

As I recall in 2008’the WaPo really dug into Hussein’s background.

Spit.


78 posted on 07/01/2016 1:03:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Moonman62

Why don’t we buy this paper? It’s probably losing money every year, we can probably get it for 10 bucks.


79 posted on 07/01/2016 1:03:58 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: ozzymandus

will it could be argued that whatever the Washington Post pays these writers could be classified as Charity. They certainly hadn’t done anything worthy of a paycheck.


80 posted on 07/01/2016 1:10:55 PM PDT by Federal46
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