Showing posts with label Eric Trump Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Trump Foundation. Show all posts

Monday, January 22, 2018

Tax Filing Reveals Thousands Eric Trump's Foundation Paid To Trump Org -- TPM

A new tax filing shows that Eric Trump's charity golf tournaments did in fact pay tens of thousands of dollars to Trump properties, despite Eric Trump's earlier assertions that much of the group's expenses were written off by his father's businesses, the Daily Beast and Forbes reported late last week. ....
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/eric-trump-foundation-thousands-trump-organization

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Like Father, Like Son: Eric Trump Does Something Awful

The Eric Trump Foundation may have funneled money from its children's cancer benefit back into the family business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdBgW0jygjk&feature=youtu.be

Eric Trump Foundation Appears To Have Paid Charity Money To Trump Org

Eric Trump’s charitable foundation seems to have paid the Trump Organization hundreds of thousands of charitable dollars, Forbes reported in a lengthy investigation published Tuesday, despite Trump’s claims that the Trump Organization did not charge the foundation for use of its golf courses. 

Eric Trump has undoubtedly been generous in raising millions for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through charitable golf tournaments. But in reviewing IRS filings, Forbes found hundreds of thousands of dollars that the Trump Organization seems to have received from charitable organizations — including the Eric Trump Foundation....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/forbes-eric-trump-foundation-trump-organization-payments


Wednesday, June 7, 2017

How Trump co-opted his kid's cancer charity to line his own pockets

It seemed like Eric Trump actually started out with the best of intentions when founding his Eric Trump Foundation to support research into children's cancer by raising lots of money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the leading pediatric cancer center. He threw huge annual golf events (at the family's golf course, naturally), with all of the money raised going to the hospital because daddy didn't charge anything to use the venue and all the other costs were comped.

While it might have started out with the best of intentions on Eric's part, daddy then got ahold of him and reminded him that just looking good isn't enough if you don't profit directly. That's the picture that emerges from a Forbes investigation by Dan Alexander....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1669377

Friday, December 30, 2016

The Eric Trump Charity Paid the Trump Organization Big Bucks | Alternet

After sustained outcry about his foundation providing big-money donors access to the incoming presidential family, Eric Trump finally announced Thursday that he will suspend all operations of his charitable foundation. Donald Trump, on a brief respite from using Twitter to promote a nuclear arms race or whine about celebrities hating him, used the opportunity to complain about his family being treated like every other clan that has occupied the White House writing, “My wonderful son, Eric, will no longer be allowed to raise money for children with cancer because of a possible conflict of interest with my presidency. Isn't this a ridiculous shame? He loves these kids, has raised millions of dollars for them, and now must stop. Wrong answer!”...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/eric-trump-charity-paid-trump-organization-big-bucks









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