RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events The unsung generosity of Donald J. Trump

One I just ran across:

JENNIFER HUDSON SANG FOR THE 2020 DNC CONVENTION, BUT IT WAS DONALD TRUMP WHO TOOK HER IN AFTER HER HORRIBLE 2008 TRAGEDY
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877986/posts


One America News reporter Pearson Sharp has a report today citing a dozen or so people Trump helped out over the years, completely unsolicited, where Trump had noreason to do so other than kindness. There was a time not so long ago that the liberal media gushed over Trump for his generosity for these acts of random kindness. Now the media try to pretend those acts of kindness never happened. For example, no mention of Trump in Jennifer Hudson's wikipedia listing. Orwell's tech media has wiped Trump's record clean of such acts.

Another was a marine named Andrew Tahmooressi in 2014, who made a wrong turn in San Diego, and accidentally ended up on the Mexican side of the border. He was moving at the time, and had all his posessions in the car, including some firearms he owned, for which the Mexicans arrested him and put him in prison, where he stayed for a year or so, for no apparent reason. It is common for Mexicans in their prison system to arrest Americans, and then extort a ransom from the family to secure their release.
Particularly disgusting because this guy is a U.S. marine. In the year or so he was imprisoned, then-president Obama never communicated with the Mexican government, in any attempt to secure his release, nothing. (This was one of two U.S. marined who were wrongfully imprisoned during Obama's presidency, he did nothing to help either, even as he attended the funerals of criminal thugs and gave presidential amnesty and/or accolades for violent marxist revolutionaries.)
Finally, Tahmooressi was very ill in prison and almost died, and I think the Mexicans involved only set him free to avoid the wrath of the U.S. if he possibly died in prison.

When Trump saw this in the news, he contacted Tahmooressee and in a letter thanked him for his military service, honored him, and rewarded him for his troubles with a check for $25,000.

https://insider.foxnews.com/2014/11/10/donald-trump-writes-25k-check-sgt-andrew-tahmooressi

Another I recall is a New York City bus driver, who drove on a bridge past a woman who was clearly about to jump and commit suicide. The driver stopped the bus and talked to her, and prevented her from taking her life.

Trump read about it in the news, and sent the driver a check for $10,000, saying that his quick thinking saved a woman's life, and that the driver deserved to be rewarded for that.


https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-offers-10g-to-hero-bus-driver

Appaarently after a Trump rally in 2016 in Jacksonville, Trump sent about 400 pizzas to 6 different police precincts, and to corrections officers as well.


https://100percentfedup.com/media-i...ess-the-latest-from-facebook-is-a-doozy/

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President Donald Trump Probably Donated His Entire $1.6M Salary Back To The U.S. Government

• by Adam Andrzejewski
  
  
  
  The President of the United States makes $400,000 annually, before taxes. During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised to donate his salary if elected President. It was a promise, even his critics acknowledge, that Trump was keeping.
  
  The presidential salary is a requirement of the U.S. Constitution in Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 and the specific amount is set by Congress. Presidents are not legally allowed to decline their salary, but can donate it to organizations of their choosing.
  
  Trump is the first president since John F. Kennedy to donate his salary. Both John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover donated their presidential salaries to charitable causes. According to congressional records, George Washington initially declined his $25,000 salary, but Congress wouldn’t let him.
  
  Trump’s first-quarter 2017 salary donation to the National Park Service was for $78,333, likely his take-home pay after taxes. The Park Service said an anonymous donor gave $22,000 to round the donation up to $100,000.
  
  In subsequent press events, Trump presented personal checks for an even $100,000, indicating he was dipping into his own personal finances to make up the difference himself.
  
  President Trump donated at least $1.4 million of the $1.6 million he earned as president to various federal agencies. Still in question, however, are the donations for the third and fourth quarters of 2020. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com verified fourteen of sixteen quarterly donations over four years.
  
  We reached out to Trump’s spokesman to find out the details. We’ll update the piece if and when they provide any new information on the third and fourth quarter donations.
  • In 2017, President Trump gave:
    
    Q1: $78,333 to the Department of Interior’s National Park Service (NPS) for maintenance backlog at historic battlefields. Specifically, the donation went to restore the Newcomer House on the Antietam battlefield and for the replacement of its deteriorated rail fencing.
    
    Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Education to host a free, two-week space camp for 30 low-income, middle school girls. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received a $100,000 check in 2017, and announced a year later that the President’s donation had doubled the space camp’s participants.
    
    Q3: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for “the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.”
    
    Q4: $100,000 to the Department of Transportation to support its programs to “rebuild and modernize our crumbling infrastructure.”
    
    In 2018, President Trump gave:
    
    Q1: $100,000 to the Veteran’s Administration for “caregiver support in the form of mental health and peer support programs, financial aid, education training, and research.”
    
    Q2: $100,000 to the Small Business Administration earmarked for a seven-month training program tailored for veteran entrepreneurs.
    
    Q3: $100,000 to the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trump’s brother died of alcoholism-related causes at the age of 43.
    
    Q4: $100,000 to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump tweeted, “While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didn’t do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!”
    
    In 2019, President Trump gave:
    
    Q1: $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be “used for outreach programs that benefit farmers[.]”
    
    Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Surgeon General. The President tweeted, “I donate 100% of my President’s salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!”
    
    Q3: $100,000 to the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to “the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis.”
    
    Q4: $100,000 to HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to “confront, contain, and combat #Coronavirus[.]”
    
    In 2020, President Trump gave:
    
    Q1: $100,000 to HHS to “develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.”
    
    Q2: $100,000 to the NPS in July 2020 to help pay for repairs on national monuments. “I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President,” Trump tweeted. “I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to @NatlParkService to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!”
    
    FURTHER READING
    
    Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist No. 73, explains the intent for the President’s salary and its inability to be modified while the President is in office.
    
    Forbes explains how the President can write off his donations.
    
    Politifact: acknowledges Trump’s take-no-salary pledge was a “promise kept.”

It is the subject of debate:

a. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/31/business/trump-taxes-questions/index.html

b. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4-efd9-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html

c. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...tax-returns-salary-donation/11132712002/

d. https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidT...actually_donate_his_presidential_salary/

It is hard to discern signal from noise. The general sense I get from this is that he probably donated some of it.

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As detailed in my post above, Trump was paid his presidential salary in quarterly installments, and publicly wrote checks to the Veterans' administration and other charitable groups on those quarterly occasions.

I don't know how that can be disputed, but okay.


Other presidents before Trump have donated their salary, as I recall JFK and Herbert Hoover.
But up till Trump, it had been awhile since others have done so.

I can speculate a few reasons Trump didn't claim his $400,000 salary donations in his 2020 tax return :
1) He wanted to make it a true donation, and not exploit it as a tax deduction. That is actually more charitable.
2) Trump donated the equivalent $400,000 from his own savings rather than from his actual presidential salary checks, because of some complication or delay in the release of funds from the actual paycheck.
Possibly other reasons, but those are two reasons I can speculate offhand.

Dave, what's your take on why Trump would not disclose his tax returns?

I'm not trying to bait you, just interested in your view on it as I've never heard a Trump supporter's side of the story. (Never enquired, to be honest.)

I think it's because he has very complicated tax returns, that among tax accountants and lawyers are perfectly legitimate write-offs and expenses, but that Democrats would oversimplify and exploit in campaign ads to demagogue Trump as an evil rich guy.

It would be just giving the Democrats ammunition to unjustly carpet bomb Trump with negative ads. Democrats are very skilled at coming up with incendiary bumper-sticker type slogans, that would take 10,000 words of explanation to fully explain why the Democrats are lying. So his mindset is, why give Democrats the opportunity?

Trump has already vindicated himself on every major accusation, federal investigation, impeachment, and contrived "whistleblower" accusation over the last 9 years.
NINE STRAIGHT YEARS OF INVESTIGATION, each where the INVESTIGATORS are the ones exposed as corrupt !
The Democrats have been proven vicious liars who have twisted the facts and abused federal power, every single time. To the point that it is shown that the people in FBI, DOJ, House members like Adam Schiff, and agents like Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bill Priestap, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, are the ones who should be in jail, for crimes THEY (not Trump) have committed.
And it's a boy crying wolf scenario, where most of the American public no longer believes the new accusations against Trump, and are actually increasingly motivated to side with Trump because of the obscene unfairness of each pile-on new lawfare attack (with the exception of the CNN, MSNBC, New York Times and Washington Post crowd and their readers, who are incapable of sympahy or objectivity, driven by blind hatred of Trump and not by the facts, and therefore eagerly jump on ANY new narrative that attacks Trump, even after all the Trump narratives that have been disproven as false.)

The poll numbers support what I'm saying, that every new indictment, every new gag order, causes another rise in the polls for Trump's 2024 campaign. And not just among Republicans, but among Independents and Democrats as well.

I think it's because he has very complicated tax returns, that among tax accountants and lawyers are perfectly legitimate write-offs and expenses, but that Democrats would oversimplify and exploit in campaign ads to demagogue Trump as an evil rich guy.

That's a legitimate answer (I won't deal with the rest, as you've gone off piste). But GW Bush and so on, who I understand has a lot more money than Trump, did it. And Bush was as reviled by parts of the media.

If you're in the public eye, that scrutiny is just one of the prices to pay, isn't it?

Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, then move to Florida, book says https://www.theguardian.com/books/a...-book-disabled-son-die?CMP=share_btn_url

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From the hit-piece leftist Guardian article :

• Fred C Trump III is the son of Fred Trump Jr, Donald Trump’s older brother who died aged 43 in 1981. A successful New York real estate executive in his own right, Fred Trump III is with his wife Lisa a campaigner for rights for disabled people like their son, William.
  
  
  In 2020, Fred Trump III’s sister, Mary Trump, published her own tell-all memoir, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Fred Trump III distanced himself from that book but it included the story of how Donald Trump and his siblings effectively disinherited Fred Trump III and Mary Trump, then cut off funding for William’s care.
  
  The case was settled in 2001. In his own book, Fred Trump III describes a call to his uncle after the White House funeral of Robert Trump, the then president’s younger brother, in 2020.
  
  Fred Trump III says Donald Trump was then “the only one” of the older Trumps still “contributing consistently” to William’s care.
  
  He contacted his uncle even though he “really didn’t look forward to these calls” and “in many ways … felt I was asking for money I should have originally received from my grandfather” – Fred Trump Sr, the New York construction magnate whose will prompted the family feud.
  
  Fred Trump III says he called Donald Trump after seeing him at Briarcliff, a family golf club in Westchester county, New York. He says he described his son’s needs, increasing costs for his care, and “some blowback” from Trump’s siblings.
  
  “Donald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation,” Fred Trump III writes.
  
  “‘I don’t know,’” he finally said, letting out a sigh. ‘He doesn’t recognise you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.’”

It's obvious Fred C.Trump III and his sister Mary Trump (who also wrote her own book pandering to haters of Donald Trump) both have a grudge against Donald Trump dating back to their being disowned in Donald Trump's father's will (their grandfather).
And that in their hared and grudge against Donald Trump, they will say anything to slander and embarass Donald Trump.

And that liberal media and yourself will have muliple orgasms repeating these obvious lies about Trump.

This is consistent among the people slandering Trump, that while they were involved in profitable business with Donald Trump, or the prospect of profitable business with Trump, all of them can't say enough nice things about Trump.
But the moment Trump removes them from those profitable ventures, or as interns, or as contestants on his TV show, or positions in his White House, they all suddenly completely flip, and try to get back at him by slandering Donald Trump. Whether Stormy Daniels, or Amorossa, or Scaramucci, or Michael Cohen. Or these relatives cut out of Trump's father's will.
In every case, it is clear vindictive payback.

That is all.

Actually I think you got things turned around here. His nephew kept quiet in 2016 and 2020 because Trump was helping out with his son’s care. Trump did stop helping at some point. Why? All that money and a grandnephew in need.