Social Posts Distort Facts on Trump Charities
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Articles on social media falsely assert that the Trump family is”disallowed from working ANY charity” in New York because they”stole from a child’s cancer charity.” That inaccurately describes the result of a court case between the Donald J. Trump Foundation and conflates it with allegations about the Eric Trump Foundation.
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President Donald Trump’s namesake charitable foundation consented to stop operations in late 2018 as part of an agreement with New York’s attorney general, who alleged the nonprofit organization was severely leveraged to further Trump’s political and business interests. A November court order solved the litigation, and Trump finally compensated a total of $2 million in damages to eight charities, which also received equal parts of the foundation’s remaining $1.8 million.
But it’s not true, as viral societal media articles claim, the Trump family was”disallowed from working ANY charity” in New York” because they stole from a childhood cancer charity.” That distorts the facts such as by conflating two distinct matters.
To start with, it is wrong to say that the family was”disallowed” from working a charity in the nation. There was no stipulation in the settlement with the attorney general.
While the attorney general’s lawsuit originally asked the court to bar Trump and his grown kids who sat on the foundation’s board from functioning as any charity’s”officer, director, trustee or equivalent position” for a time period, the settlement reached did not do that.
Rather, the agreement imposes several requirements that the president must fulfill if he”decides to function as an officer or manager of a preexisting charitable organization” — or”form a new charitable company and serve as an officer or director thereof” — in New York. By way of instance, if Trump were to begin a new company, he would want to”provide Annual Reports to the Attorney General for five decades.”
It also took Trump’s kids — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump — to take part in”compulsory training” relating to charitable organizations, which the three have already experienced.
There also was no region of the nation’s litigation that dealt with allegations that the Trump Foundation” stole from a child’s cancer charity,” since the articles claim.
That detail seems to stem from a 2017 Forbes narrative that alleged Eric Trump’s separate nonprofit organization, the Eric Trump Foundation, participated in self-dealing and misled donors.
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The magazine wrote that the base publicly proclaimed that all proceeds from its annual golf tournament in a Trump golf club goes to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But while the base did donate countless that organization, in addition, it made substantial payments to the Trump Organization to sponsor the event and some funds were directed to various charities, Forbes found.
While the New York attorney general’s office stated it was”looking into” the findings from this Forbes report back in 2017, those allegations were part of the litigation between the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
Eric Trump has since resigned from his base, which has rebranded as Creativity.
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