Posted on 03/04/2016 9:02:46 PM PST by Steelfish
Tax Returns Show Trump's Donations To LGBT Groups, Including One That Promotes Child Homosexuality
Hazel Torres 03 March 2016
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has given financial support to LGBT groups, including one that promotes homosexuality to children, Christian News reported.
The Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $30,000 to "gay" activist organisations in 2012, according to his filed tax returns. $20,000 of the amount went to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) while the remaining $10,000 went to the Gay Men's Health Crisis, according to a form 990 posted online and available for public review.
GLSEN was founded in 1990 by Kevin Jennings and a coalition of Massachusetts school teachers who reportedly supported advocacy for homosexual issues.
Christian News noted that the group's motto is "championing LGBT issues in K-12 education," saying that it creates printed resources for teachers to use in the classroom, including for LGBT History Month and LGBT Pride Month. It also provides suggestions for reading material to use as lessons for the children, including the books "Heather Has Two Mommies," "It's OK to Be Different" and "Tango Makes Three."
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Those are not Donald Trump’s tax forms.
They are forms for the foundation under Trump’s name.
The Eric Trump foundation has a board of directors and a CEO who is not Eric Trump.
It is likely that the same is true of the Donald Trump Foundation.
IOW, like the Ford Foundation which is not run by the Fords, it could be separately controlled.
That said, it also gave $100,000 to the Billy Graham Association.
In 2012 we did not all realize the gay activism was for anything else than basic civil rights. Then they got their inch and now the miles.
Donald probably clueless as the rest of us then
No. The celebrities who participate on the show donate their “winnings” to their stated charity of choice. It is actually NBC/and or the producers of Celebrity Apprentice (Mark Burnett) who instead of writing a check for the winnings to the “celebrity”, they write a check to the “celebrity’s chosen charity.
Yes, they do. But Donald Trump ALSO personally gives to their charity along with that money you speak of. That’s the whole issue. What little I watched that show I saw time and time again when Donald would tell apprentice contestants (not necessarily the winners) often times he’d give to the charity of the ones he was about to fire off the show. So, yes Donald would personally give thousands and thousands of dollars at a time directly to their selected charity.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one season = over a million dollars that he gave directly to their charities. This I saw personally from what little I watched so it’s not something I have to research or Google.
So as a result of this, I would never donate even a single penny to the Donald J. Trump Foundation and if I donate to a charity - a veterans’ organization, I will do so directly.
I don’t blame you. Neither would I. In fact I always make sure I give directly to the charity of my choice and not to places like the United Way. As someone who is happy to see the results for Cruz in today’s primary, I still must be truthful and report what I see. Donald Trump has given as bonuses directly (not to the contestants)to the charity of the contestants, normally as a reward for a task they did or if they liked the person but was ready to fire them.
Several times he’d as, “tell me, again... what was your charity because Im going to give $10,000 on top of what you get for them on this show...” it’s because of all these times he’s done that (on what little I watched) that I know how it works.
I disagee with you about how Donald Trump gives to those charities on that TV show because you are 100% wrong.
That said, I cannot say that Donald Trump does not give to gay groups and liberal causes on his own independent of that TV show. As a matter of fact, it’s Trump’s liberal donations and tendencies that keep me hoping that Cruz ends up as the nominee but I can tell you what I know and saw from that TV show.
I haven’t watched the show in a while, but if a person is picked “manager” or “team leader”, and that team wins, the manager’s charity gets the money. So if one charity got money twice, it’s probably because the manager was picked to manage twice and the team won twice.
I’m not sure I get your question. The donations in the article and what I posted about were the donations made by the Donald J. Trump Foundation. These would appear to be separate, over and above the winners’ donations of their winnings on the show. The DJT Foundation donations to the charities that correspond to the top 7 contestants’ charities for the 2012 season of the show are all in $10,000 amounts except for the $20,000 donation to GLSEN.
From the article:
The Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $30,000 to "gay" activist organisations in 2012, according to his filed tax returns. $20,000 of the amount went to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) while the remaining $10,000 went to the Gay Men's Health Crisis, according to a form 990 posted online and available for public review.
http://pdfs.citizenaudit.org/2013_12_PF/13-3404773_990PF_201212.pdf
The Celebrity Apprentice winners/finalists’ tax returns are not a matter of public record unlike those of a charity or charitable foundation.
And I’m not 100% sure how this works from a tax perspective. If the person on the show never received their “winnings” from the show and were directly donated to the charity by the TV show, would the winner would have to claim the “winnings” as income, pay tax on it and then donate it and claim the deduction vs. if they never actually received it and the TV show or network made the donation directly to the charity? Not an expert in this part of tax law but I think that if the contestant is clearly playing up front for a charity, the donation wouldn’t show up on their personal tax return but would on the Celebrity Apprentice production company’s or on NBC’s tax return or the tax returns of the donors – neither of which are public. As I understand those appearing on the show are paid $25,000 but all monies they raise plus the “prize” money from the show goes to their charity.
FWIW – here is the 2012 Form 990 for the charity Clay Aitkens chose – The National Inclusion Project (see page 23 where it lists as revenues from fundraisers in the 1st column - Celebrity Apprentice - $55,000)
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2012/200/146/2012-200146446-094cc363-9.pdf
Note that Wiki said he raised $361,500 in total he raised for his charity but as I understand, the celebrity contestants actually raise the money so not all of the donations come from the TV show but also from individuals or from corporations. The source of contributions are not enumerated on the Form 990 but are in total on line 8 of Part I of the form.
That would make sense except for a few things. The winner in season 2012 was Arsenio Hall so he won the $250,000 grand prize for his charity - The Magic Johnson Foundation. Why does that not show up and only a $10,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation on the foundation’s 990? The 2013 winner was Trace Atkin’s who also got the $250,000 grand prize for his charity – The American Red Cross, yet no donation what so ever is listed to The American Red Cross on Donald J. Trump Foundation’s 990 for 2013.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/272965145/2013-Trump-Foundation-990
That is because The Donald J. Trump Foundation doesn’t provide the prize money; NBC/the producers of the show do.
I disagee with you about how Donald Trump gives to those charities on that TV show because you are 100% wrong.
In that case I would stand corrected however I would also point out that if Trump said “I’m going to give $10,000 on top of what you get for them on this show...” that’s not 100% correct either since he would seem then to be giving from his foundation - the one he hasn’t donated any of his own money to since 2008.
Trump didn’t give to Jennings.
Trump gave to one of 0bama’s pets.
Now, how odd is it that a man of such wealth, under a multi-year audit, gives to the ‘king’? Hmmmmmm?
Gnome sayin?
The odd thing is that people want to act shocked.
I’ll bet you 0bama’s iPhone and Reid’s faxmail have these stored and already broadcast to all the Journolist.
It shows just how focused the propaganda offensive for homosexual marriage has been in the last few years. It's all these people think about.
I would also point out that if Trump said “I’m going to give $10,000 on top of what you get for them on this show...” that’s not 100% correct either since he would seem then to be giving from his foundation - the one he hasn’t donated any of his own money to since 2008.
Yeah, I have no idea where he takes it from. You may be correct there.
Thanks!
Let’s put it this way then, would you donate to an organization with gay or lesbian in its name?
As to Bill Gates, I’ve just read that, as of 2013, his foundation has stopped funding Planned Parenthood because of abortion. I am pleasantly surprised. I would be equally surprised if he donated to a group with the word terrorist or rapist in the title.
It’s always possible that one’s donation might be go somewhere unintended, and I would never fault anyone for that. When I donate, I pray that God will guide the money to where He wants it to go. I trust in Him, not in people.
Way way way too vague a hypothetical, I'm not going to walk into your gotcha. You know what? I will: If your 8 year old daughter was being held up for emergency heart surgery because some hospital permit official needed 100$ for his gay group, then yes, to save your daughter's life, I would donate to that group with the word gay or lesbian in it's name.
Similarly, if you invested all your savings in my company and your daughter's college education fund WAS that investment, and unless I gave 100$ the company would fold and your 17 year old daughter's education fund would be 0, I also would do that for your daughter.
Get what I'm saying? Trump's business is not just Trump.
Don't think that just because I am defending Trump I ignore it, don't notice it, don't have my eye on it. It's just that I'm not going to allow people to get the smear style gotcha while they pretend that anything in the world would ever get done without there having to be some tradeoffs when you have two values and the real world puts them directly in conflict with each other.
CPAC is the establishment? Since when? Conservatives have been the ones fighting the establishment long before Trump decided to join the fray. So why would he diss the people who could be his biggest supporters? They had been supporting him over Ted Cruz in the early states. I think this diss has hurt him big time as conservatives may be dissing him right back. We know liberal Republicans would not vote for him. So who’s left? It was a total unforced error.
Regardless. One thing’s for sure. Romney is dead to conservatives after he became a clear tool of the establishment. What he did to Trump is one of the most disgusting and lowliest things I’ve seen the GOPe do this side of the Mississippi primary a few years ago.
Really? Speak for yourself. GLSEN and other similar groups had the same mission in 2012 that they do now - they were not hiding then; they were not hiding it before 2012 or 10 years earlier.
Critics Slam 'Gay Agenda' in Public Schools By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos Published May 07, 2002
Knight joined representatives of other groups in denouncing what they called a massive effort on the part of groups like the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to promote the homosexual lifestyle, using "diversity," safety and anti-discrimination programs as a stalking horse.
The group has sparked controversy in the past. In 2000, a parent audio-taped a GLSEN-sponsored conference in Massachusetts in which three state health and education employees led a youth workshop called "What They Didn't Tell You About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class."
California has been spotlighted for a law it recently passed requiring teachers and administrators to provide a safe environment to students harassed because of their sexual orientation or "gender identity." That led to the creation of a task force, which included at least three members of GLSEN and a host of other activists, that in turn adopted a list of recommendations to ensure schools obeyed the law.
Those recommendations include teacher training, promoting awareness, encouraging student-led activist groups and incorporating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender historical figures, related events and concepts to curricula.
And you might want to re-think referring Trump as “clueless” – his supporters will not like that ; ).
Thanks for info. I do wonder how many knew the depth of this soul destroying movement though. Too bad if people don’t like calling Donald clueless.
Trump is a control freak and does only what he wants and has people who work for him who do only his bidding. Great people. Isn’t the independent, self-funding (except for individual donations, kind of like going to a casino), angry with the poor economy, make deals with the enemy candidate what you want?
That’s because this isn’t really Trump’s taxes.
This is the tax return of a foundation under Donald Trump’s name. His son Eric also has a foundation. His has a separate board, CEO, and set of regulations.
So, DJTrump’s foundation, like the Ford Foundation, isn’t run by a Ford family member.
I might point out that the foundation also gave $100,000 to the Billy Graham organization.
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