An explosive new report by Forbes Magazine claims the Trump Organisation has been funnelling money from funds donated to a children’s charity, just in case Donald Trump wasn’t already enough of a cartoon villain.
It claims that funds raised by the Eric Trump Foundation‘s annual charity golf event – for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – have been used to channel money into the Trump Organisation by hosting said events at a Trump-owned golf course, the Trump National Golf Club in New York state.
“Mr Trump had a cow,” said Ian Gillule, who left the golf course in 2015. “He flipped. He was like, ‘We’re donating all of this stuff, and there’s no paper trail? No credit?’ And he went nuts. He said, ‘I don’t care if it’s my son or not – everybody gets billed.”
So that year, the foundation’s costs for the charity event tripled on the previous year to $142k (AU $188k). Overall, it’s received $1.2 million (AU $1.59 million) for its usage. That figure defies “any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament” say golf charity experts, who are apparently a real thing.
Since the report came out, Eric Trump’s only public statement has been to hawk his own – demonstrably good – achievements of raising significant funds for sick kids.
I have raised $16.3 million dollars for terminally ill children at @StJude with less than a 12.3% expense ratio. What have you done today?! https://t.co/4jf7GIJaBN
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) June 6, 2017
However, he hasn’t denied that vast sums of money have been funnelled into the Trump Organisation.
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