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Veterans group to Trump: Keep your donations
Right Scoop ^ | Jan 27, 2016

Posted on 01/27/2016 12:55:29 PM PST by GregKremer

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To: jwalsh07
Trump has set up a Veterans and Wounded Warrior account for all of the donations like I send in, $5.00 whatever, that is where this money goes to....

In one of his rallies a couple of months ago, he walked off stage into the audience and talked with a Wounded Warrior who was in a wheel chair...Trump was able to help this Warrior by the donations that people like me send in...

This money will go to that account...

61 posted on 01/27/2016 1:26:44 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: RaceBannon
He has supported vets for years. When I did some research recently, he paid for 4 funerals when the gov’t said no. He has donated an untold amount to different veterans groups.
62 posted on 01/27/2016 1:27:47 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: jwalsh07

When is this thing going to be most visible?

When will more people see it and be moved to support the Vets?

You have to choose your battles.

Dumping on Trump for doing this, is a lost cause.

It will benefit the vets and FoxNews will be the big loser, exactly as it should be.

If Trump gets half his first audience to tune in to the fundraiser and they all give $1.00, that’s $12 million dollars.

If they each give $10, that’s $120 million dollars.

Okay, I guess we should cancel it. Good call... /s


63 posted on 01/27/2016 1:27:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: RummyChick

Wounded Warriors is also a scam. Donate to the DAV, American Legion, VVA, or VFW. Not a one of their directors get paid a dime or the advocates. Every dime they get goes to veterans in need.


64 posted on 01/27/2016 1:28:45 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: GregKremer; All
You should have posted this too.

IAVA FORM 990
65 posted on 01/27/2016 1:29:52 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: GregKremer; flaglady47; Jane Long; HarleyLady27; entropy12; 3D-JOY; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; ...
LISTEN UP !!!

The article above makes it clear that this group has NOT been offered any donations by Trump and has NOT even been mentioned by him or his staff or CNN as a recipient.

Just another anti-Trump organization head looking for his 15 minutes of infamy while using his vets organization to unload a multitude of body slams against Mr. Trump....one of the most generous and philanthropic (and veterans-loving) people of our time.

Leni

66 posted on 01/27/2016 1:29:53 PM PST by MinuteGal (GO, TRUMP, GO !!!)
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To: floozy22

Was any money even going to be offered to this group?Or did Rieckhoff just decide it was a good time to run his mouth?


67 posted on 01/27/2016 1:30:01 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: DoughtyOne

This was advertisement for them. They’re said don’t go through Trump, donate directly to us.


68 posted on 01/27/2016 1:30:46 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: NKP_Vet

Amen to that.


69 posted on 01/27/2016 1:30:56 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: GregKremer

I hope some poor trooper who needs therapy or a home aide doesn’t go without so this guy can make his political point.


70 posted on 01/27/2016 1:30:58 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: MinuteGal; All

Great comments Leni. As usual, you nailed it.


71 posted on 01/27/2016 1:31:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: GregKremer

It appears to be a relatively small group...

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=12257#.Vqk21yorJNB


72 posted on 01/27/2016 1:31:38 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: GregKremer
Won't jump on the bandwagon - what a sh8thead.

Military service[edit]

Rieckhoff enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve on September 15, 1998 and completed Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort McClellan, Alabama.[2] He then served in the U.S. Army Reserve, as a specialist with the 812th Military Police Company. While working on Wall Street in 1999, Rieckhoff transferred to the New York Army National Guard. He graduated from Officer Candidate School in June 2001 and was named a Distinguished Military Graduate. Rieckhoff selected infantry as his branch and joined A Company, 1-105th Infantry (Light).

Rieckhoff left Wall Street on September 7, 2001 with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero.[3] His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening.

In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq. In January of that year, he was on a plane to join the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Rieckhoff was then assigned as a platoon leader in the 3-124th Infantry (Air Assault) of the Florida Army National Guard. The unit was attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and spent almost a year conducting combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq. Third Platoon conducted over 1,000 dismounted and mounted combat patrols. All thirty-eight of the men in Rieckhoff's platoon returned home alive.

Rieckhoff was awarded a United States Army Commendation Medal for his service in Iraq.[5]

73 posted on 01/27/2016 1:31:57 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Farmer Dean

Rieckhoff just decide it was a good time to run his mouth?****************************

Yep, that’s about it...


74 posted on 01/27/2016 1:32:16 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: Obadiah

Maybe IAVA is afraid of the scrutiny that the Trump organization put them through before they got any money.


75 posted on 01/27/2016 1:32:38 PM PST by ryderann
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s true. It was an attempt to coral all Trump’s possible donors, take advantage of a man doing something for a good cause, and redirect those funds to his own group.


76 posted on 01/27/2016 1:32:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: NKP_Vet

But you can add Fisher House and Marine Semper Fi to that list.


77 posted on 01/27/2016 1:33:53 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: VanDeKoik; jwalsh07
to cite a single group out of hundredes for refusing money....that isn’t even offered to them, because it gives you an opportunity to bash Trump?

Classic display of Hypocrisy!

78 posted on 01/27/2016 1:33:56 PM PST by entropy12 (I am voting for GOP nominee, to avoid 1/2 vote for Hillary. But Jeb & Kasich put me in a conundrum!)
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To: entropy12

I didn’t cite anything. I said Trump makes a mistake when he uses veterans as political props. That’s my opinion and I don’t much care whether anybody agrees or not.


79 posted on 01/27/2016 1:35:54 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: GregKremer

They won’t take money for their vets? What kind of people are they?


80 posted on 01/27/2016 1:36:01 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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