Almost four months after promising $1 million of his own
money to veterans’ causes, Donald Trump moved to fulfill that pledge Monday
evening — promising the entire sum to a single charity as he came under intense
media scrutiny.
Why now?
In recent days, The Washington Post and other media outlets
had pressed Trump and his campaign for details about how much the fundraiser
had actually raised and whether Trump had given his portion.
The candidate refused to provide details. On Monday, a Post
reporter used Twitter — Trump’s preferred social-media platform — to search
publicly for any veterans groups that had received Trump’s money.
By Monday afternoon, The Post had found none. But it seems
to have caught the candidate’s attention.
Damn meddling kids liberal media.
It brings to mind this oldie, but goodie of this pair of troop-loving wingnuts.
A potentially damaging scandal erupted that implicates Fox
News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Oliver North in the worst kind of
charitable fraud.
According to complaints filed
with the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS, the two right-wing icons have
exploited American veterans for personal and partisan gain. The
actions filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
accuse Hannity and North of misusing millions of dollars collected by the Freedom Alliance, a charity they
promote and control.
Great Americans they are!
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