I remember Vietnam veterans often coming to my home years ago to sell light bulbs, you know those bulbs that are now banned? I bought them every time and I think I may still have at least a dozen in the cabinet. It’s not very well known that about 25% of transitioning veterans are interested in starting a new business and just need the right startup funding guide for veterans to help them. This is why I always try to help them but Trump? Humm, not so much.
Trump Website for Donations to Veterans Funnels All Money to Donald J Trump Foundation
TWS: Donald Trump is skipping tonight’s debate because, according to Trump, Fox News and Megyn Kelly have not been nice to him. Trump plans on holding a rally to benefit veterans instead, but The Federalist reports that Trump is funnelling all donations for veterans to his personal Donald J Trump Foundation–a charity that has treated veterans as an afterthought in recent years.
From The Federalist:
“Honor their valor,” the website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, states. “Donate now to help our Veterans.”
The website, which is nothing more than a single page with stock photos and a credit card donation form, claims that “100% of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs.”
There’s only one problem: 100% of the money raised on the site goes directly to Donald Trump’s personal non-profit foundation, according to a disclosure listed at the bottom of the page.
“The Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,” the disclosure reads. “An email confirmation with a summary of your donation will be sent to the email address provided above.”
As Forbes reported in October, the Donald J Trump Foundation barely gave more than $10,000 per year to veterans groups from 2009 to 2013. Trump’s net worth is estimated to be $4 billion. Trump’s donations to the Clinton Foundation totaled somewhere between $100,000 and $250,000.
Trump’s spokeswoman said that “Mr. Trump has made significant financial and in kind contributions to many Veterans organizations, personally and not through the Donald J. Trump foundation.” She declined to provide an estimate of how much Trump has personally given to veterans.
*** Wait, 300 words does not tell the whole story, there is more.
Donald Trump Wanted Vets Kicked Off Fifth Avenue
DailyBeast: Instead of debating his presidential rivals Thursday, the GOP frontrunner is hosting an event ‘to raise money’ for veterans. That’s rich, say the disabled veterans he tried to eject from the street outside Trump Tower.Now that he has balked at facing Megyn Kelly at the Republican debate, Donald Trump will be embracing heroes.
“[Trump] will instead host an event in Iowa to raise money for the Veterans and Wounded Warriors, who have been treated so horribly by our all talk, no action politicians,” the Trump campaign announced.
Never mind that for more than a decade Trump sought to deprive veterans in need of their meager livelihood because he found them unsightly nuisances who should not be allowed anywhere near his gleaming headquarters on Fifth Avenue.
The Trump who now extols veterans spent years clamoring for New York City’s politicians to take action and ban even those street vendors with special disabled veteran’s licenses from the environs of Trump Tower.
As was reported in the New York Daily News, Trump wrote in a letter to the New York State Assembly back in 1991, “While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?”
He went on, “Do we allow Fifth Avenue, one of the world’s finest and most luxurious shopping districts, to be turned into an outdoor flea market, clogging and seriously downgrading the area?”
He was still at it in 2004, when he wrote a letter to Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
“Whether they are veterans or not, they [the vendors] should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street,” Trump declared.
He warned, “The image of New York City will suffer… I hope you can stop this very deplorable situation before it is too late.”