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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #4d3939;">Donald Trump must personally pay $2 million for running crooked Trump Foundation, now dissolved after NY challenged it&#8217;s fiduciary control and distribution</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #4d3939;"><strong>Judge In NY Thursday ordered the president to pay back $2million, because candidate Trump&#8217;s charity transferred money for veterans to his campaign </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #4d3939;"><strong>President Trump agreed to dissolve the foundation in December as part of a deal with NY State Attorney General, Letitia James</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #4d3939;"><strong>James alleged the charity was used as &#8216;an arm of Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign and a personal piggy bank for the Trump family&#8217;<span style="color: var(--color-text);"> </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #4d3939;"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A Jan. 2016 fundraiser in Iowa that Trump promoted as an event supporting veterans raised $2.8million</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #4d3939;"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The money instead was given to the Trump campaign </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #4d3939;"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Trump and his campaign eventually donated that amount to veterans’ charities as questions mounted about the fundraiser</span></strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="timestamp-wrapper "><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334560" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Donald-Trump-1.jpg" alt="Donald Trump 1.jpg" width="800" height="533" />Crooked Charity fundraiser: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump [center], arms raised listens as Treasure Island Casino owner Phil Ruffin, [right], speaks at an event in support of veterans at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 28, 2016</span></strong></h6>
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<div class=""><span style="color: var(--color-text);">President Trump must personally pay $2 million because his Trump Foundation charity was a scam that misused money donated to veterans, a judge ordered Thursday.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Trump </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">agreed to dissolve the foundation</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> in December as part of a deal with State Attorney General Letitia James, who alleged the charity was used as an arm of his Presidential campaign and a personal piggy bank for the Trump family.<br />
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</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla was left to determine what penalty should be imposed on Trump personally for his misuse of the charity.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Judge Scarpulla focused on a Jan. 2016 fundraiser that Trump promoted as an event supporting veterans.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">But $2.8 million raised at the event was actually given to the campaign. Trump and his campaign eventually gave that amount to veterans’ charities as questions mounted about the fundraiser.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“Mr. Trump’s fiduciary duty breaches included allowing his campaign to orchestrate the fundraiser, allowing his campaign, instead of the Foundation, to direct distribution of the funds, and using the fundraiser and distribution of the funds to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign,” Scarpulla wrote.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“I direct Mr. Trump to pay the $2million, which would have gone to the foundation if it were still in existence.”<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">James noted that Trump admitted to personally misusing funds for the charity and now faces restrictions on charitable endeavors going forward.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8220;The Trump Foundation has shut down, funds that were illegally misused are being restored, the president will be subject to ongoing supervision by my office, and the Trump children had to undergo compulsory training to ensure this type of illegal activity never takes place again,” James said.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8220;No one is above the law — not a businessman, not a candidate for office, and not even the President of the United States.”</span></div>
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<strong style="color: var(--color-text);">President Donald Trump sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Dec., the president insisted Wednesday that he was treated unfairly in the probe of his organization, one day after the New York state AG, Letitia James, announced the impending dissolution of the Donald J. Trump Foundation </strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The $2 million will go to approved charitable organizations, including Army Emergency Relief, Children’s Aid Society, City Meals-on-Wheels, United Negro College Fund and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“We are pleased that the Court, in rejecting the Attorney General’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages, recognized that every penny ever raised by the Trump Foundation has gone to help those most in need. Now that this matter is concluded, the Trump Foundation is proud to make this additional contribution,&#8221; the Trump Foundation said in a statement.<br />
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</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Trump previously </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">defended his charity</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> while criticizing James’s predecessor, Eric Schneiderman: </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“The Trump Foundation has done great work and given away lots of money, both mine and others, to great charities over the years — with me taking NO fees, rent, salaries etc.,” Trump tweeted in December.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“Now, as usual, I am getting slammed by [Gov.] Cuomo and the Dems in a long-running civil lawsuit started by sleazebag AG Eric Schneiderman, who has since resigned over horrific women abuse.”</span></p>
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“No one is above the law, not even the President of the United States!” Court orders President Trump to pay $2 million for running crooked Trump Foundation; Charity transferred money for veterans to his campaign – Judge
