Posted on 01/27/2016 11:56:38 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/politics/donald-trump-veterans-group/
Sept 2015:
Los Angeles (CNN)The veterans group that hosted Donald Trump for a speech this week on board a decommissioned battleship had its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS in August.
The group, Veterans for a Strong America, sounds like a charity, and in a press release touted having more than a half-million supporters across the U.S. In reality, it is a political action group whose tax-exempt status was revoked in August because it failed to file tax returns for the past three years. The group is appealing the decision. In addition, CNN has found scant evidence that Veterans for a Strong America has the supporters it says it does.
The Trump campaign said it did not know about the organization’s issues until after the event. People paid between $100 and $1,000 to attend the speech on the U.S.S. Iowa.
The founder and chairman of VSA is a former Army officer named Joel Arends, who served in Iraq in 2004. He’s an attorney and political consultant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where VSA is based. In its most recent filing this spring with the Federal Election Commission, the organization reported it had $30 in the bank and owed $318 to a Washington consulting firm.................
Leon should see a head doctor before he loses his mind over Trump.
“You?”
Only prescribed medications for genuine, medical issues and, of course, a long list of off-the-shelf vitamins. ;-)
I saw *illegal recreational pharmaceuticals* AND alcohol ruin friends’ lives. Early on I came to the realization that even alcohol does, in fact, kill brain cells.
I was trying to make a joke. Maybe you should lighten up? ;-)
This is a phony article. I am glad Trump is not giving money to a fraudulent charity or a leftist group. There are many organizations that support veterans. The article listed three questionable ones and implied they represent all veteran’s Charities.
I easily found a link to many charities and I am certain that this is just a small percentage of the total.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=531#.VqnTheLSmUk
Just like...
He used the Football and Wrestling Iowa Teams for his rally and now those teams are in trouble because they cannot endorse a political candidate.....broke the rules....so Trump's team never checks things...ever! They just do what they do regardless who it's going to hurt.....
These kids could be eliminated from competing or/and penalized monetarily/p>
Chickenstuff Trump turns our Vets into beggars to hide his cowardice. Why doesn’t he give them jobs instead?
I saw that.
It's all about Trump and his bottom line:
"What's in it for me?"
Any “veterans” group that rejects Trump’s money is in reality a political group posing as a veterans group. It is they, not Trump, who are hiding behind veterans. If they truly cared about veterans first, they would accept money from any legal source.
He’ll have to bus people in again.....besides this isn’t about Kelli....it’s about a Presidential Primary and she’s not running...must be Trump thinks she is. LOLOL
Trump made a Yuge mistake in running away from the debate like a kid in a sandbox who cried when he got sand in his eyes.....the guy dishes it out but cries like a baby when it comes at him.....lolol...what a whimp!
See my post 32. You nailed it. CW is doing the repost BS again.
The guy on CNN tonight wrote an anti George W. book. He also is a don’t ask don’t tell advocate as per wiki.
Trump wasn’t giving him any money.
It’s interesting watching Trump tie himself in knots over this......it’s backfiring on him and he’s struggling to find a way to save face. ...and he’ll use anything and anyone to do that.
He’s spent his life shoring up his ego...which is what’s at the heart of his actions. Afraid to face the candidates he thought he could make an issue and Fox would dance around him.....they didn’t.
He was like a wounded puppy tonight on O’Rilley.....Speaking of....the two have been friends for 25 or more years...Trump looks to him like an older brother and why O’Rilley gets away with ‘schooling’ Trump, as he did tonight...
I think the idea that it’s the “Principle” of the thing some groups are refusing......Trumps been cautioned to get his team to verify and check the people he uses and the plans he makes because they haven’t been, for that he ends up looking like the jerk he often is.
I didn't know that. Interesting. I don't watch O'Rilley but for years I saw Trump on "Fox and Friends" - he was given a regular, lengthy, weekly segment (via the phone) to discuss his views on the news and to promote himself. They were always extremely deferential to him.
I donated to Cruz three times, from day one to a couple weeks ago.
I also plan to check articles before opening them and skip those that CW posts from now on. TDS indeed. She’s making me more sure that Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump would be just fine.
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