Donald Trump’s Foundation Engaged in Self-Dealing, IRS Filing Shows
Foundation’s 2015 tax return reports payments to foundation insiders
President-elect Donald Trump’s charitable foundation engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and prior years, the foundation said in an Internal Revenue Service filing.
.. Mr. Trump’s foundation has already admitted that it made an improper donation to a political group associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2013, essentially making a payment that should have been from Mr. Trump’s pocket directly.
.. Mr. Trump’s companies donated to the foundation in 2015, giving more than $600,000 and breaking with his recent history of relying mostly on other people’s money for the foundation, the tax filing showed.
.. Recipients of the foundation’s money in 2015 included conservative groups such as the Media Research Center, the American Conservative Union Foundation and Project Veritas, the group founded by James O’Keefe that releases undercover videos. Other recipients included the Apollo Theater Foundation, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame.