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Trump used charitable donation to buy Tebow helment


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2016 Jul 1, 10:31am   2,535 views  14 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/01/donald-trump-used-money-donated-for-charity-to-buy-himself-a-tim-tebow-signed-football-helmet/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_tebow-630a-camp%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Wait 1 second to continue. 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 fundraiserin Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction. The items up for sale: A Denver Broncos helmet, autographedby then-star quarterback Tim Tebow, and a Tebow jersey. Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Jul 1, 11:02am  

Wow, this is freakin' desperate. He bid at a charity auction, where the POINT IS TO BID BIG ON ITEMS TO RAISE MONEY.

Bezos, fuck off, you Oligarch.

2   turtledove   2016 Jul 1, 11:08am  

thunderlips11 says

Wow, this is freakin' desperate. He bid at a charity auction, where the POINT IS TO BID BIG ON ITEMS TO RAISE MONEY.

Bezos, fuck off, you Oligarch.

What he said.

3   joshuatrio   2016 Jul 1, 11:21am  

tovarichpeter says

Wait 1 second to continue. 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 fundraiserin Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction. The items up for sale: A Denver Broncos helmet, autographedby then-star quarterback Tim Tebow, and a Tebow jersey. Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000.

HOLY SHIT ARE U SERIOUS ?!?! WTF!?!?

4   tatupu70   2016 Jul 1, 11:32am  

thunderlips11 says

Wow, this is freakin' desperate. He bid at a charity auction, where the POINT IS TO BID BIG ON ITEMS TO RAISE MONEY.

Bezos, fuck off, you Oligarch.

Except that's not the story. The problem is that he used charity money to buy himself a gift. That is a big no-no.

5   dublin hillz   2016 Jul 1, 11:44am  

A Satanist buying a helmet of an evangelical christian, is this some kind of twilight zone?

6   FNWGMOBDVZXDNW   2016 Jul 1, 11:52am  

The Clintons haven't stooped this low, have they?

Is the Donald going to set new precedents in government opacity, or is he going to release his tax returns. This is likely part for the course, not an oddity.

7   Shaman   2016 Jul 1, 3:14pm  

So this compares somehow to the billions wasted by the Clinton Foundation? Tell me again how the 3% that "charity" gave to charitable causes is legal and how Chelsea really deserves her six million salary? Awesome sauce

8   marcus   2016 Jul 1, 3:31pm  

Quigley says

how Chelsea really deserves her six million salary?

When you throw out numbers like that, it's like challenging people to look in to it and find out the Clinton foundation is way more legit than you imply. It pays it's CEO $395K.

Fund-raising, Clinton-style, has always been a seamy subject, and it seems Chelsea’s team has tried to keep her out of dirty waters. When it comes to her speaking fees—which have spiked to the low six figures—she’s taken the high road and arranges for 100 percent to go to the foundation. (Neither she nor her father receives a salary from the foundation.)

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/chelsea-clinton-foundation-nbc-first-daughter

She probably is well paid, in gifted money her from her father, who does keep 90% of his speaking fees. But that's fair. He's President Bill CLinton.

9   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Jul 1, 4:31pm  

Wait, he used charity money to buy an item for charity.

Who else is supposed to get the item?

Don't charities move money between each other all the time? BFD.

Desperation. There should be a Joy Division song about how unhinged the Media is getting over Trump to help Hillary.

When the corpratists lose big... and desperation takes hold... Trump, scrape the barrel for something on Trump... Again...

10   turtledove   2016 Jul 1, 6:55pm  

They are really reaching. Anything above the fair market value of the item in question is the charitable contribution.

11   tatupu70   2016 Jul 2, 12:16pm  

Lips--he didn't buy anything for charity. He bought something for his own collection and enjoyment.

The charitable donation was when Tebow gave the helmet. Trump merely engaged in a monetary transaction buying something he liked. Except he did it with his charity's money. That's a problem.

12   Shaman   2016 Jul 2, 12:47pm  

It's a really minor problem that even the IRS whose problem it actually is, hasn't followed up on. Go find something real. Compared to the Hildabeast, Trump is a beacon of forthrightness.

13   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Jul 2, 2:55pm  

tatupu70 says

Lips--he didn't buy anything for charity. He bought something for his own collection and enjoyment.

When he brought the Helmet, who got the money?

The Charity. It was a charity auction. T-Bow's helmet didn't produce any cash until they auctioned it off.

What I find mystifying is how Hillary supporters can dismiss things like her son-in-law's connections to Goldman with his offshore Tax Sheltered Greek Investment, her huge speechifying for cash, and the average of 700 emails per month - or more than 20 per day - between her Aides and Tenneco/Clinton Foundation while Sec of State.

14   tatupu70   2016 Jul 2, 4:45pm  

thunderlips11 says

When he brought the Helmet, who got the money?

I see. So if someone donated a $1MM house to charity and I paid market value for it (to the charity)--my $1MM house purchase is a charitable donation?? That's your take?

thunderlips11 says

What I find mystifying is how Hillary supporters can dismiss things like her son-in-law's connections to Goldman with his offshore Tax Sheltered Greek Investment, her huge speechifying for cash, and the average of 700 emails per month - or more than 20 per day - between her Aides and Tenneco/Clinton Foundation while Sec of State.

I know, I know. Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.

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