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Undated: Trump
University (also known as the Trump Wealth
Institute and Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC) was an American
for-profit education company that ran a real estate training program from
2005 until 2010. It was owned and operated by
The Trump Organization. (A separate organization,
Trump Institute, was licensed by Trump University but not owned by the Trump
Organization.) After multiple lawsuits, it is now defunct. It was founded by
Donald
Trump and his associates, Michael Sexton and Jonathan Spitalny, in 2004. The
company offered courses in real estate, asset management, entrepreneurship, and
wealth creation.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University -- 2015 --
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June 16: trump On his wealth: “I don’t need anybody’s money. It’s nice. I don’t
need anybody’s money. I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m
not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich, I’ll show you that in a second.
And by the way, I’m not even saying that in a braggadocios … that’s the kind
that’s the kind of thinking you need for this country.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-2016-announcement-10-best-lines-119066 -- 2017 --
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[Trump has] bragged shamelessly about his wealth.
Trump was once quoted as saying ‘part of the beauty of me is that
I’m very rich.’
February 24: This is Exactly Why We Need To
See His Taxes ... Donald Trump, President of the United States, is perhaps more
encumbered by conflicts of interest than any other man to hold that office.
Among his debt is a mysterious “at least” $50 million loan. We say “at least”
because that’s how it’s listed in Trump’s financial disclosure document…you
know, the one Trump says America should look at instead of his tax return. Trump
has never publicly explained or discussed this debt, meaning it is possible that
the President owes a lender tens of millions of dollars that has conflict of
interest written all over it.
http://www.bluedotdaily.com/donald-trump-has-a-50-million-secret-this-is-exactly-why-we-need-to-see-his-taxes/
March 20: What is known about Trump’s
financial connections with Russia comes from news reports, lawsuits, and other
public records.
His own son may be the best source that Trump
has taken money from Russian investors. At a 2008 conference in Moscow, Donald
Jr. told a reporter from the trade publication eTurboNews:
“And in terms of high-end product influx into the U.S., Russians make up a
pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and
certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of
money pouring in from Russia.”
October 26:
Insisting, "It has not been easy for me" and that "my whole life has been
a 'no' and I fought through it," Donald Trump
said Monday his father's "small loan" of $1 million got him started as a
developer. This version of events, which seems intended to show he is somehow a
self-made man, represents a new direction for the candidate and fails to give
Trump the elder the credit he deserves.
Although Trump may have been told "no" on occasion, his early success depended
on many important "yesses" that were obtained with his father's ample
assistance. Privileged to have a name that opened doors at banks and insurance
companies and New York City Hall, Trump also benefited from financial assistance
that was worth many times more than $1 million. He and his businesses have also
enjoyed public help in the form of tax breaks, loans from his siblings, and
protection from bankruptcy courts worth well in excess of $100 million. However
it was his father who made sure Donald got a big head start in life.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/dantonio-trump-small-loan-from-father/index.html
March 9: The Trump Organization has donated
$151,470 in foreign government profits at its hotels and similar businesses last
year to the U.S. Treasury, an executive said in a statement Friday.
May 16: President Donald Trump acknowledged
for the first time that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000
for expenses Cohen incurred during the 2016 presidential election, according to
a
financial disclosure form released Wednesday.
September 24: [From "why do people love -or
hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
3. He’s a billionaire.
He was born rich and just became richer by swindling people and stiffing
workers. What’s most tragic is that a lot of working-class people, who have
every right to be outraged by how our government has sold out their interests,
have invested hope in a man who has never been poor, can’t relate to them on any
level about anything, and who probably considers them all losers and suckers.
They think he’s “working class” just because he has a foul mouth. Don the Con
has fooled these people into voting against their best interests. At a time when
wealthy inequality is reaching record heights, they elected a man who’s only
going to make the gap between rich and poor wider.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
October 2: President Donald Trump received
today's equivalent of at least $413 million from his father -- according to
an analysis from The New York Times, and much of the fortune came from
helping "his parents dodge taxes," the paper reported on Tuesday.
The Times' report claims that Trump and his siblings hid millions of dollars in
gifts in what the Times describes as a "sham corporation." The lengthy report is
based on "a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records," as
well as interviews.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/02/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes/index.html
December 17: Law enforcement, congressional,
and media investigations over the last two years have revealed that
Kremlin-linked actors paid considerable sums of money to support Trump and curry
his favor. A Russian organization allegedly controlled by an oligarch [Oleg
Deripaska] close to Putin spent more than $1 million a month just on social
media campaigns favoring Trump, according to the special counsel.6
A Russian American energy tycoon—who boasted to a Kremlin official in July 2016
of being “actively involved in Trump’s election campaign”—donated hundreds of
thousands of dollars to the Trump Victory fund.7
And a company affiliated with a sanctioned Russian oligarch paid $1 million to
Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal lawyer, for unspecified services after the
election.8
These and other transactions examined throughout the report establish that,
during the campaign and presidential transition, Trump had several compromising
financial entanglements with actors representing a hostile foreign power.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/
May 20: President Donald Trump lashed out at
The New York Times on Monday, disputing the paper’s reporting on his
relationship with Deutsche Bank and launching into a broader criticism of the
news media.
The president appeared to be responding to a Times
report that anti-money laundering experts at the German bank noticed
suspicious activity in accounts belonging to Trump and his son-in-law, Jared
Kushner, in 2016 and 2017. According to the Times, bank executives blocked
employees from reporting the suspect transactions to the U.S. Treasury, and one
former employee says she was fired for raising concerns about the bank’s
scrutiny of certain clients.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/20/donald-trump-twitter-deutsche-bank-1334358
May 21: Deutsche Bank denies New York Times
Trump report
May 23: Banking executive indicted in
alleged loan scheme with Manafort wanted top role in Trump administration
Chicago-based financier Stephen Calk was indicted in
New York on Thursday for his alleged role in a loan scheme with former Trump
campaign chairman
Paul Manafort, federal prosecutors announced.
Prosecutors charged Calk, a banking executive, with a single count of financial
institution bribery after investigators found he allegedly extended a $16
million loan to Manafort in exchange for a senior-level position in the Trump
administration.
In his indictment, prosecutors recount how Calk, who is expected to appear in
federal court later on Thursday, provided the loans to Manafort during the 2016
campaign before sending the former campaign chief “a ranked list of the
governmental positions he desired.”
