K Seles
1 min readJun 1, 2024

I think America needs a refresher course on the Trump “Foundation”:

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- Failure to maintain proper governance

- Solicitation of donations without a license

- Mishandling of funds raised for veterans’ causes

- Coordinating foundation grants with Trump’s presidential campaign

- Grants to the National Museum of Catholic Art and Library

- Failure to make pledged 9/11 grants

- Using Trump Foundation money to settle Trump Organization legal disputes

- Donation to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi

- Grants allegedly made for political purposes

- Partial payment of an assessment owed by the Plaza Hotel

- Purchasing goods and services for personal or business benefit with foundation money

- Diversion of taxable income to the foundation as donations

- Granting money to charities that rented Trump Organization facilities

- Trump taking personal credit for donations made using foundation money

- Making grants to other private foundations without fulfilling IRS “expenditure responsibility” rules

- Receiving donation from Ukrainian oligarch during campaign for president

Donald J. Trump Foundation — Wikipedia

K Seles
K Seles

Written by K Seles

Architect by vocation. Individualist by inclination. Political sociologist, anthropologist, rationalist, philosophist, and cosmologist by avocation.

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