An untold story of corruption

Paul Waldman                                                                                                                                           

WashingtonPost.com

Donald Trump has gotten plenty of negative media coverage, Said Paul Waldman, but it's been focused "mostly on the crazy things he says. On any given day," is antics have obscured the mind- boggling amount of "core option, double- dealing and fraud" Associated with trumps businesses and his charitable foundation. While Hillary Clinton has been taking a daily beating over the Clinton foundation, it was quietly reported last week that the Donald J Trump foundation made an illegal, $25,000 political contribution to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi. After she cashed the check, Bondi decided not to pursue allegations that top university had defrauded its Floridian students. That should be "enormous news."  But it wasn't. Neither was a story revealing that trumps modeling agency used underpaid foreign women to work illegally in the US another stunner: a new Washington Post investigation found that the Trump foundation doesn't operate as a typical charity at all, and that Trump solicits donations from third parties that he then pretends to make from his own pocket. He even used foundation funds to buy a $20,000 painting of himself. Trump gets lots of criticism for what he says, yet he "is still being let off the hook for what he's done. "