Posted on 01/31/2016 5:24:05 PM PST by CutePuppy
Donald Trump announced Friday he raised $6 million for veterans at his fundraiser in Iowa the night before.
But this would appear a significant increase from what he's given to the cause before, according to some reports which questioned whether the billionaire businessman has been a consistent donor to vet groups.
Showbiz 411 reports that the Donald J. Trump Foundation gave a total of $2.6 million in charitable donations in the last three years, but only a fraction has gone to veterans groups. In 2012, Trump gave nothing, in 2013 he gave $6,000 and in 2014 he gave $16,000, according to the report.
The Weekly Standard reports that the foundation donated $57,000 to veterans groups between 2009 and 2013, only a small amount of the $5.5 million it gave in total during that period of time.
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"These reports are not accurate. Mr. Trump has made substantial personal contributions to a number of Veterans organizations as well as in-kind donations," Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks** told FoxNews.com Friday.
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The Weekly Standard reports that Trump's foundation, meanwhile, gave at least $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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What’s the frequency Kevin? The mother ship is waiting. :-)
If you insist, I'll call that a fact stipulated.
But considering how much sh!t you've given the boss in the past, and many, many other senior members ad hominem, I'm surprised you've survived it.
Everyone on this site is free to criticize any candidate, relentlessly and aggressively, until Jim says stop.
But when you start bashing Freepers that have been around for a while, you're crossing the line.
Why not respect yourself and your fellow Freepers and excoriate your hated candidate?
So provide us a list of the hundreds of times more money that Trump gave schumer and Clinton so we can all !ook at it.
Wouldn’t that add up to about $100 million? The MSM would love to see those stats.
And even more to Republicans and (some of which who only claimed to be) conservatives.
So?
And even more to Republicans and conservatives. You know, before we all realized that they wanted only to stab us in the back.
“trump didn’t give a flying damn about veterans until he stepped on his dork about mccain. it’s all a big trumpian diversion.”
You can be proven wrong.
Start with the Vietnam Vets Memorial,,then look into Marine Tahmooresi, and if necessary, I can post a picture of friends’ family mtg with Trump over a year ago due to his donations to a Vet cause.
Oh and which candidate was honored for donating to military?
Trump. Before he was a candidate.
Do some basic research.
Notice no one is demanding the other candidates help the vets..why is that do you think?
“Why now all of a sudden and why at the time of debates where he should have been, and when it hurt both events, and pulling a “celebrity” and “military” cards to get political allies into giving to his foundation.”
He’s been thru 6 debates. Not everyone agrees he needed to do another one. You aren’t in charge of that decision.
He helped VETS and it pisses you off. Damn, how you must hate veterans to let your political BS bias get in the way of them getting help. BTW,,100% of the proceeds are being disbursed. Trump’s foundation that you are so snarky about isn’t taking one cent for administration or overhead.
But that’s not good enough for you. No,,let’s see what candidate has raised more for vets? hmm Which candidate has raised more for ANY charity.
Still not good enough for you.
Kiss off.
hate to tell you but some of those vets Trump helped? They may be Dems too.
Oh no!!!!!!!
He’s one of those guys who show up every 2 years for 6 months and then goes dormant again.
“Anyone want to argue that with me? “
Apparently the hate some have for Trump will cause them to argue with you. They can’t name another candidate who has done more for vets but they sure can tear down Trump who has done quite a bit. Their venomous nastiness is just sickening. They put their politics before the vets.
Disgusting.
You got a perfect man in mind. I only know of one and he isn’t running for President.
Yep. Looks like we ran him off for tonight.
I’ll be glad when Iowa is over.
So? So he didn’t outshine the debate (which btw is BS when you read the analysis),,but the vets got money..What’s the problem? Every other candidate running could have done the same thing.
YOu put your political views ahead of helping vets. Are you Muslim?
Trump is pro-America,,which puts him miles away from the nearest liberal.
Thanks for your concern.
Oh I get. You’re one of the ‘perfects’
so donations to vets don’t count if they don’t equal donations to liberals,,is that right?
Screw the vets, focus on the liberal donations,,that’s what you are doing.
Are you muslim?
“a parade is empty calories.”
Says you. Of course the fact it may be meaningful to some doesn’t square with your venom spurts.
Yes, you are perfect and no one is worthy. You’re fast putting yourself into the corner of arseholes
Me too. With his staff, there’s no reason for this to take long.
You should be ashamed for such statements regarding Freepers and Vets....... There’s not one Freeper that doesn’t wholeheartedly honor and support our Military, and many here have family members who have not only served but served well.
Your comment was unnecessary.....regardless of where Freepers stand on politics it’s not wise to suggest they put politics before the vets. That’s pretty underhanded IMO....
Truth hurts does it?
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