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Report: 96 Percent of Clintons Charity Donations Went to Family Foundation

Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 12, 2016 | Natalie Johnson

Posted on by Cheerio

Hillary and Bill Clinton funneled 96 percent of their charitable donations to their own family foundation, according to the Democratic nominees 2015 tax returns.



Last year, $1 million of the total $1,042,000 that the Clintons deducted in charitable contributions went to the Clinton Family Foundation, the Daily Caller reported Friday.



The tax return showed that the other $42,000 in contributions went to Desert Classic Charities, a nonprofit that organizes an annual charity golf tournament. The organization then in turn contributed $700,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A foundation adviser and longtime Bill Clinton assistant, Doug Band, was on the organizations board of directors through 2014, according to IRS filings.



The Clintons earned in total more than $10.5 million in 2015, primarily from paid speeches. Less than 10 percent of their total income went to charity.



Clinton released her tax returns Friday as pressure builds on Donald Trump to follow suit. The Republican nominee has argued that he cannot release his returns because he is being audited by the IRS.



An IRS official told the Washington Post in April that there was no reason Trump could not release his tax returns prior to 2009.



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UNINDICTED FELON running for the Highest Office on the planet.



To: Cheerio

To think that this worthless POS CROOK could lead the free world just turns my stomach.



To: Cheerio

So the grand charitable “gifts” that the Grifters DeLuxe so lovingly “gave” to the Foundation were money laundered and paid right back to them. Seems fair (what lice!!)



by 3 posted onby Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)

To: Cheerio

This is the Trump campaign response: “Hillary Clinton has turned over the only records nobody wants to see from her  the American public wants to see the 33,000 emails she deleted to obstruct an FBI investigation. We want to see the Clinton Foundation records showing how the Clintons sold our uranium to Russia, ripped off Haiti and cut deals with oppressive regimes around the world. We want to see the pay-for-play emails that Clintons Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, refuses to turn over. We want to see the transcripts of the secret Wall Street speeches Clinton was paid $10,000 dollars-a-minute to give. We want to see the records the night of Benghazi that explain why Secretary Clinton didn’t send in reinforcements as soon as the attack had begun. Hillary Clinton is at the center of an international corruption scandal that reveals her use of government authority and influence for personal gain. The records we need to see are those being hidden, deleted, obstructed and stashed away by Hillary Clinton to keep authorities from untangling this corrupt scheme that reaches into the world’s shady corridors of power. Everything she doesn’t want us to see has been digitally shredded or put under lock and key. This document release is nothing more than an attempt at distraction and misdirection by an individual who created and then purged an illegal private email server.”



To: Cheerio

At least they have increased their charity giving from 1992 when they deducted $400 in donated clothes and undergarments. You can’t take the grifter out of the hillbillies. Hell, these scumbags stole White House silverware in 2001.



To: Cheerio

$42,000 in contributions went to Desert Classic Charities...golf tournament. The organization then in turn contributed $700,000 to the Clinton Foundation Why would a golf charity contribute to the Clinton Foundation other than to launder a donation, almost twenty-fold?



by 6 posted onby blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))

To: Cheerio

All the kewl millionaire /billionaires do it.../s



by 7 posted onby goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)

To: Cheerio

If you go to the Clinton Foundation website you’ll see that they’re taking applications for several positions including “Talking Points Writer”. They’re also looking for (not a joke)...interns



To: Cheerio

I thought she was a Methodist. There evidently nothing to the church.



by 9 posted onby alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)

To: Cheerio

If you go to the Clinton Foundation website you’ll see that they’re taking applications for several positions including “Talking Points Writer”. They’re also looking for (not a joke)...interns



To: Cheerio

Seems to me that a 30 second ad showing the amount in billions collected by the Clinton Foundation. The amount actually paid to charities (in the low millions) And finally, the amount of expenses, travel, dividends, grants, gifts, salaries, commissions, rebates, business goodwill and all foreign proceeds that may be hidden paid to the Clintons and their associates including family. (Chelsea and Hillary’s brother) This amount will be at least a half BILLION dollars. The valid charities get damn near nothing. Ask the Haitian people.



To: Cheerio

An IRS official told the Washington Post in April that there was no reason Trump could not release his tax returns prior to 2009. Really? What is an IRS agent doing saying anything to any member of the public about any individual's tax return. This official needs to be removed from office and otherwise sanctioned. Second, this is the IRS itself suggesting that Trump has reason not to release his returns from 2009 and later.



To: Cheerio

she just washed the money . Paying herself. Where is the media on this? She gives it to her charity to get the damned write off. Then she gets is back as expense reimbursement (non taxable) . That is obscene!!



by 13 posted onby WENDLE (We demand her medical records NOW!!)

To: AndyJackson

In addition to what you say: IRS has no law against Trump releasing his tax return; it is Trump’s lawyer who advises him not to do so. I have noticed that the media continues to say THE IRS HAS NO PROBLEM WITH TRUMP RELEASING HIS RETURN. They never add that that is not the issue, it is the lawyer of the client. The media is so biased. They do not tell the truth when conservatives are involved.



To: Cheerio; blueplum

“The tax return showed that the other $42,000 in contributions went to Desert Classic Charities, a nonprofit that organizes an annual charity golf tournament. The organization then in turn contributed $700,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A foundation adviser and longtime Bill Clinton assistant, Doug Band, was on the organizations board of directors through 2014, according to IRS filings.” That’s just simply staggering. I mean, it isn’t billions, but the sheer brazenness of the Clinton grift operation is quite beyond belief.



To: Cheerio

When their $1.4 million “charitable donation” was announced on all the Democrat media outlets, they failed to mention that the Clintons gave to their favorite charity...themselves! What a sick joke.



To: Cheerio

It’s even worse than it seems.

They gave $1 million.

They are in the 34% tax bracket.

Which means that they also got a $340,000 tax deduction.

So the “give” a million get 90% of that back into their family scam, then get another $340000 back in tax deduction. $1.1 million out, $1.34 million back. And you suckers pay your taxes!



To: txrefugee

You would think just from a PR standpoint that a measly 10 to 20 million to the Red Cross would be called for. These cats are so brazen that they are flipping us all off with that slimy grin on Bill’s face.



To: Attention Surplus Disorder; Cheerio

so...I did a little digging. Desert Classics is the former Bob Hope Classic, produced by Desert Charities, who has a whole lot of new friends:

http://www.desertcharities.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DC-MediaKit-2014-LORES.pdf

http://www.desertcharities.com/charity-directory/

http://www.desertcharities.com/2012/10/desert-classic-charities-humana-donate-more-than-2-million-to-coachella-valley-community/

(I didn’t see Clinton Foundation on the donated to list at the last link but there is quite a flowery description of the CF/CGI)



by 19 posted onby blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))

To: Cheerio

They put money in their own “charity” so they don’t have to pay taxes on it. Then the “charity” uses the money to pay Chelsea’s salary and expenses for all three as they fly all over the world on make believe business for the charity.

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by 20 posted onby Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")

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