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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 07:20 PM Apr 2017

Ivanka is starting her own foundation and is accepting checks from foreign governments: report

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/ivanka-is-starting-her-own-foundation-and-is-accepting-checks-from-foreign-governments-report/

"During the 2016 presidential campaign, the Clinton Foundation pledged that it would stop accepting foreign donations if Hillary Clinton became president.

Now it seems that First Daughter Ivanka Trump is starting her very own foundation that she will operate while working inside the White House — and she’s reportedly already securing money from foreign governments.

Axios’s Mike Allen reports that Ivanka Trump has started building a “massive fund” whose goal is to “benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe.” One source even tells Allen that “Canadians, Germans and a few Middle Eastern countries have already made quiet commitments” to the fund, as have “several corporations.”

Allen claims that President Donald Trump is a big supporter of Ivanka’s plan, and he says that Trump has already started talking with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim about how to get the foundation off the ground “in a big way.”...(more)

Another "get rich quick" scheme by the Trump family disguised as a charity. These people are unreal! Is there no depth they won't sink to?

GET THEM OUT NOW!!
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Ivanka is starting her own foundation and is accepting checks from foreign governments: report (Original Post) smirkymonkey Apr 2017 OP
So the charity is for rich women with expensive hobbies, like Ivanka? Ilsa Apr 2017 #1
Money laundering by any other name... jls4561 Apr 2017 #2
I'm thinking the mob could learn a thing or two from THEM. smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #9
No Shame! That family knows No Shame! VigilantG Apr 2017 #3
Why should they? Our Legislative and Judiciary branches know no ethical courage. WinkyDink Apr 2017 #6
Secret Constitution fine print BSdetect Apr 2017 #4
Somebody has to stop this shit. smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #10
She has enough money to fund a foundation with her own damned money. applegrove Apr 2017 #5
But why should she when she can get it from other people and use it to fund smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #7
Oh I don't think she'll use it for her families needs. She'll get money applegrove Apr 2017 #16
Check? You spelled "bribe" wrong. n/t FSogol Apr 2017 #8
Well, the article spelled "bribe" wrong. smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #11
So, does this family just expect Bettie Apr 2017 #12
But Chelsea is tweeting!!11 mcar Apr 2017 #13
Oh, well we should lock her up then! smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #14
The Clinton rules are etched into the media's mcar Apr 2017 #15
Years ago I collected money at the door KT2000 Apr 2017 #17
Disgusting, isn't it? smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #19
yes, it is sickening KT2000 Apr 2017 #21
Whoa! babylonsister Apr 2017 #18
Hopefully, some decent lawyer somewhere is keeping track of all of this. smirkymonkey Apr 2017 #20
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. I'm thinking the mob could learn a thing or two from THEM.
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:07 PM
Apr 2017

I have never seen a more immoral, brazen family in my life.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. But why should she when she can get it from other people and use it to fund
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:06 PM
Apr 2017

her family's own needs? See how easy it is when you have no morals and nobody will come after you for being a criminal?

applegrove

(118,492 posts)
16. Oh I don't think she'll use it for her families needs. She'll get money
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:45 PM
Apr 2017

for her foundation from people who want to curry favour with her, then donate to charity. Getting the accolades for doing such great charity work. She's being cynical and using her dad's position. She has more than enough money to be the sole funder of her foundation. That way she can help people, get goodwill from that and not use her position in politics.

Bettie

(16,072 posts)
12. So, does this family just expect
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:18 PM
Apr 2017

foreign leaders to hand them a check when they shake hands?

They are vile, detestable....I don't even have the right words to describe them.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
14. Oh, well we should lock her up then!
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:22 PM
Apr 2017

For god's sake tweeting vs. another scandalous global grifting scheme. Which is worse? Poor Ivanka is just trying to HELP people!

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
17. Years ago I collected money at the door
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 09:02 PM
Apr 2017

for a fundraiser for our governor at the time. It was $10 per person. A Chinese man came in and handed me 4 one hundred dollar bills. I told him we could not take it and he kept insisting. Finally he just paid the $10. I did make sure he got to meet the governor though, which wasn't hard because he met with everyone there.

All Ivanka had to do was let it be known she had a "foundation" and the cash rolls in. It is SOP in so many countries - this one now too.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
19. Disgusting, isn't it?
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 10:13 PM
Apr 2017

I thought most people in other countries hated them. But it just goes to show that the corrupt are everywhere. It makes me sick.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. Hopefully, some decent lawyer somewhere is keeping track of all of this.
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 10:14 PM
Apr 2017

I want nothing more that to see this entire family behind bars.

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