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Political Glance
The Donald J. Trump Foundation has been collecting donations from charities and using them to benefit other charities, with little to no money coming from the GOP nominee himself, according to a Washington Post investigation.
As the Post puts it, Trump’s foundation is “a charity that allowed a rich man to be philanthropic for free.”
Trump reportedly hasn’t given the foundation any of his own money since 2008, when he contributed $30,000 — a $5,000 decrease from the year before.
While New York’s attorney general was investigating Trump University in 2014, Donald Trump’s foundation donated $100,000 to a conservative group that sued that same attorney general, according to a Yahoo News report Friday.
The Trump Foundation gave the money to Citizens United in 2014, the same year the group sued Eric Schneiderman over his push to force nonprofits to disclose the identities of their donors.
After that Matt Lauer debacle Wednesday night, it’s time to stop grading Donald Trump on a curve, don’t you think? He’s not blunt. He’s not refreshing. He’s not a straight talker.
Trump is two things.
First, he’s a liar. Not an occasional liar or accidental liar, but a liar as a matter of course, a liar as strategy, a liar as a means to crush his opponents. This is hard for most people to wrap their heads around because most people aren’t like this and indeed have never even met anyone like this. It’s so shockingly amoral that most people can’t believe that someone would actually be like this. But he is.
Moderating a high-profile political debate or forum, not unlike being the umpire in a playoff baseball game, is a role most often talked about the next day when things don't go quite so well.
Such was the case Thursday morning for Matt Lauer, the day after he was at the helm for NBC News' Commander-in-Chief Forum featuring Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, publicly released an email exchange in which former Secretary of State Colin Powell advised then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the use of personal email two days after she was sworn in as Secretary.
Cummings also issued the following statement:
“This email exchange shows that Secretary Powell advised Secretary Clinton with a detailed blueprint on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records, although Secretary Clinton has made clear that she did not rely on this advice.
The USA Freedom Kids who became a viral sensation after performing at a Trump rally in January are suing the Republican’s campaign for $15,000 in damages.
The lawsuit claims that the Trump campaign refused to reimburse the travel expenses for the girls in the singing troupe who performed their song, "Freedom's Call,” at a rally in Pensacola, Fla. The singing group was also not able to sell their merchandise at the event despite getting approval to do so, according to legal documents reviewed by The Daily Beast.
The UN human rights chief has accused US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders, among others, of spreading "humiliating racial and religious prejudice".
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said on Monday that "populist, demagogues and political fantasists" like Wilders and Trump, as well as Nigel Farage in Britain and Marine Le Pen in France, were using "fear" tactics similar to those of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS and Daesh).
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