Here's one in it' entirety that makes T rump look bad. There are plenty of articles on this subject.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/five-questions-we-still-cant-answer-about-donald-trumps-charity-donations/?tid=a_inlPost Politics
Five questions we still can’t answer about Donald T rump’s charity donations
By David A. Fahrenthold July 6
For weeks now, The Washington Post has been trying to prove Donald T rump right about something important.
So far, we’ve failed.
The Post has been trying to confirm a claim that T rump and his campaign staff have made repeatedly: that the mogul has given millions of dollars of his own money to charities.
First, The Post looked in public records.
The proof wasn’t there.
Indeed, the tax filings of the Donald J. T rump Foundation — which T rump set up in 1987 to give away his money — show no gifts from T rump himself since 2008. (Filings since then show that all the new money in T rump’s foundation was supplied by other donors. T rump still chooses how to give it away.)
The Post then looked through an internal list compiled by T rump’s campaign, which said the tally showed $102 million in charitable gifts from T rump.
The proof wasn’t there, either.
The gifts on that list turned out to include “conservation easements” on T rump properties — agreements on land use — and thousands of free rounds of golf, given away by T rump’s courses. T rump’s campaign confirmed that not one dollar of the $102 million was a cash gift from him.
T rump’s staff insisted that those personal gifts existed — but T rump wouldn’t provide any details about them. “There’s no way for you to know or understand what those gifts are or when they are made,” T rump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told BuzzFeed, which has also investigated T rump’s charity.
So The Post looked for evidence of those personal donations, surveying 207 charities (so far) that seemed to have the closest ties to T rump. These were groups to which T rump had given T rump Foundation money, charities he’d written about in his books, charities he’d praised on Twitter — and charities that honored T rump at a charity ball. The firm DonorSearch also provided its database, which includes records of more than 101 million charitable gifts.
All of that turned up just one personal donation — made by T rump, using his own money — during a period of more than seven years.
That was the stretch between 2008, when T rump made his last personal donation to his own foundation, and May of this year — when T rump, under pressure, fulfilled a vow to give $1 million to a veterans’ charity.
The one gift in that stretch went to the Police Athletic League of New York City.
It was worth less than $10,000. It happened in 2009. And there’s a chance it’s actually a bookkeeping error.
As a new week begins, here are the questions we still haven’t been able to answer:
1. Before that $1 million gift to a veterans’ charity in May, when was the last time T rump gave a dollar of his own money to charity?
T rump himself could answer this question but hasn’t. T rump could also release his tax returns, which could detail his charitable giving. He hasn’t. T rump’s staffers have not responded to calls and emails asking for a list of his personal gifts, leaving The Post to build its own list of the mogul’s favorite charities.
On Sunday, T rump’s son, Eric T rump — who runs a charity of his own, the Eric T rump Foundation — denounced The Post’s reporting in an AM radio interview. “Charity is such a big part of our company and of our lives. My father has contributed so much to what I’ve done. He contributes so much to every charity,” Eric T rump said in an interview reported by The Hill newspaper.
But since then, Eric T rump has not provided details to back up those claims.
2. If Donald T rump didn’t donate millions to charity, what became of the $8.5 million-plus he’d promised to give away?
Since 2001, T rump has made repeated promises to give away the proceeds of various ventures: the “Apprentice” TV show; two books; T rump University; and a tent rental to Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi. These promises added up to more than $8.5 million in potential donations.
T rump’s lawyers have already said that his personal proceeds from T rump University — estimated by the New York attorney general at $5 million — were eaten up by legal fees. None went to charity. As for the rest of it: If it didn’t go to charity, where did it go?
3. Has Donald T rump ever donated his own money to the Eric T rump Foundation?
The Post included the Eric T rump Foundation on its list of 202 charities, calling and emailing to ask when Donald T rump had last given a personal gift. But the Eric T rump Foundation has not responded to repeated inquiries.
It seems likely that, if Donald T rump gave his own money to any charity, that charity would be his son’s. But so far, neither Donald T rump nor Eric T rump have offered evidence to confirm that. Tax documents, in fact, show money going the other way. In 2014, Eric T rump's charity paid $87,700 to Donald T rump's golf course in Loudoun County, Va., as payment to use the course for an Eric T rump Foundation fundraiser.
4. Did Donald T rump ever give any money to the ALS Association after taking part in its “Ice Bucket Challenge” fundraiser campaign in 2014?
In the midst of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” craze of 2014, T rump filmed a video on the roof of T rump Tower, with Miss Universe and Miss USA dousing him in T rump water. The video now has more than 2.2 million views on YouTube. In one short clip, T rump touted himself, his pageant and his water, while associating himself with a popular charitable cause.
But the point of the Ice Bucket Challenge wasn’t brand-building or YouTube views. It was to raise money for ALS research.
The Donald J. T rump Foundation, however, gave nothing to the ALS Association in the year of T rump’s ice bucket video. Did T rump, perhaps, give a personal gift instead? The ALS Association says it can’t answer that question without T rump’s permission. So far, he hasn’t given it.
5. What happened to this football helmet?
In 2012, at a charity auction in Florida, T rump won a bidding war for gear donated by then-Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow: a jersey and a signed helmet. The winning bid, $12,000, would be paid to the Susan G. Komen organization, a breast cancer charity.
But T rump didn’t pay with his own money.
Instead, he used money from the Donald J. T rump Foundation — funds meant for charity and largely donated by other people.
IRS experts have said T rump may have violated rules against “self-dealing,” which are designed to keep a charity’s leaders from using their nonprofit to help themselves. The key question is: What happened to the helmet and jersey? If T rump still has the gear in his possession — perhaps on display at one of his buildings — he may have broken the rules.
If he gave them to another charity, he may be in the clear. But the value of the gear has severely declined, along with Tebow’s football career: Today, a signed helmet and jersey can be bought online for about $415.
