{"id":17136,"date":"2016-09-21T03:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17136"},"modified":"2016-09-21T03:31:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:31:13","slug":"trumps-wealth-called-into-question-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17136","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s wealth called into question once more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gop-2016-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16967\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gop-2016-trump-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"gop-2016-trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gop-2016-trump-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gop-2016-trump-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gop-2016-trump-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gop-2016-trump.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wait a second!<\/p>\n<p>How can a presidential candidate who keeps crowing about his fabulous wealth spend a six-figure amount of dough to pay off legal debts from a charity he founded.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the Washington Post has reported in connection with Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>The Post reports that Trump dipped into his charity foundation&#8217;s pool. He snatched $258,000 out of it to pay off some legal bills he had accrued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-used-258000-from-his-charity-to-settle-legal-problems\/2016\/09\/20\/adc88f9c-7d11-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-used-258000-from-his-charity-to-settle-legal-problems\/2016\/09\/20\/adc88f9c-7d11-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that betray a trust he made to the donors of his charity? Is this the way to spend money dedicated to do &#8220;good work&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>And how does someone with the kind of wealth he keeps telling he has need to use charitable foundation money in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>The Post has compiled a thorough investigation of the story. Trump&#8217;s campaign, of course, declared it was full of errors. No one has specified the errors, or even said the story is false.<\/p>\n<p>We all know, of course, that Trump can <em>prove<\/em> his wealth simply by releasing his tax returns to the public as other presidential candidates have been doing for the past 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; wait.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait a second! How can a presidential candidate who keeps crowing about his fabulous wealth spend a six-figure amount of dough to pay off legal debts from a charity he founded. That&#8217;s what the Washington Post has reported in connection with Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee. The Post reports that Trump dipped into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump&#8217;s wealth called into question once more<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[6581,1424,2343,6110],"class_list":["post-17136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-charitable-foundation","tag-donald-trump","tag-irs","tag-tax-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17137,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17136\/revisions\/17137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}