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    VETS GROUP: Keep your money and don't drag us into any 'political stunts'

    VETS GROUP: Keep your money and don't drag us into any 'political stunts'






    Veterans group won't take Trump fundraiser donations

    Published January 28, 2016 FoxNews.com

    The head of an Iraq and Afghanistan veterans group says they will decline donations from the fundraising event Donald Trump plans to hold Thursday night as he sits out the Republican primary debate.

    Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America founder Paul Rieckhoff said on Twitter Wednesday that his group had not heard from the Trump campaign and did not know which organizations would be involved in the veterans event.


    He then tweeted:

    Rieckhoff’s criticism wasn’t reserved only for Trump. He had a similar message for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz after a super PAC supporting the presidential candidate offered to donate $1.5 million to veterans if Trump accepts a one-on-one debate challenge.

    Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina also said her campaign would donate $1.5 million to veterans’ causes – if she can join the proposed Cruz-Trump face-off.


    It’s unclear which groups will be involved in the Trump veterans event Thursday night in Des Moines. Trump’s campaign quickly put the event together after the Republican presidential front-runner announced he would not participate in Thursday’s Fox News/Google debate held at the same time, claiming he had been treated unfairly by the network.


    The campaign said Wednesday night that the “special event to benefit veterans organizations” would be held at Drake University in Des Moines.


    “We're going to raise a lot of money for the veterans. A lot of money is going to be raised,” Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, while repeatedly refusing to reconsider his decision to boycott the debate. “A lot of people are going to be there, and I can do some good.”


    Rieckhoff has been critical before of politicians’ comments about veterans issues on the campaign trail.


    After Sarah Palin, during her Trump endorsement, seemed to point the finger at President Obama over mental issues her son may be dealing with following his Iraq war service, Rieckhoff pushed back. He called PTSD a “very serious problem” and reportedly urged Palin not to “politicize” it.


    IAVA says it has over 180,000 post-9/11 veteran members. The group spent about $3 million on awareness, community and advocacy programs, according to the most recently filed financial forms analyzed by Charity Navigator.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...l?intcmp=hpbt1

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    Ted Cruz Super PACs Offer $1.5 Million for Trump Debate

    The super PACs supporting Ted Cruz are offering $1.5 million to veterans charities if Donald Trump agrees to debate Cruz one-on-one before the Iowa caucus . . .
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    Trump’s New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump’s Personal Foundation

    Rather than going directly to veterans groups, 100% of online donations on Trump's pro-veterans site will go directly to Trump's personal foundation.

    JANUARY 28, 2016 By The Federalist Staff

    After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week’s Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans. Trump even set up a special website to solicit donations to help veterans.


    “Honor their valor,” the website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, states. “Donate now to help our Veterans.”


    The website, which is nothing more than a single page with stock photos and a credit card donation form, claims that “100% of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs.”


    There’s only one problem: 100% of the money raised on the site goes directly to Donald Trump’s personal non-profit foundation, according to a disclosure listed at the bottom of the page.


    “The Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,”
    the disclosure reads. “An email confirmation with a summary of your donation will be sent to the email address provided above.”


    Confirmation e-mails sent to individuals who contributed via the website confirm that rather than going directly to veterans, all contributions made from the site go directly to Donald Trump’s personal foundation.

    “The Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and acknowledges that no goods or services were provided to you in return for your contribution,” the confirmation e-mail states. “This letter is your receipt and should be kept with your tax records.”


    A separate confirmation page that loads after donations are made on the site contains the same language noting that the contribution was made to the Donald J Trump Foundation, not to a distinct veterans organization with a history of directly supporting veterans and their families.


    According to the domain registry information for Trump’s site, the domain was not registered until Thursday morning.

    The firm that registered the domain, Florida-based Parscale Media, also designed Trump’s official presidential campaign website.


    Trump’s personal non-profit foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, does not have a history of donating much money to veterans or to veterans’ causes. According to a recent analysis of the organization’s spending history by the Weekly Standard, Trump’s non-profit donated more money to the Clinton Foundation than it did to veterans causes.


    Between 2009 and 2013, Trump’s non-profit donated between $100,001 and $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

    Over the same period of time, Trump’s group gave only $57,000 to veterans groups. A 2015 analysis by Forbes noted that barely 1 percent of the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s $5.5 million worth of donations betwen 2009 and 2013 went to organizations that support military veterans:

    The Donald J. Trump Foundation has donated $5.5 million to 298 charities between 2009 and 2013 (the most recent year available), according to the non-profit’s 990 tax forms from those years. Of that, only $57,000 has been donated to seven organizations that directly benefit military veterans or their families, Forbes found. Wounded Warriors was not among the organizations Trump’s foundation gave to in that time period.

    Forbes also found that Trump, who we estimate is worth $4.5 billion, has not made personal contributions to his foundation during the same time period. We reached out to his spokespeople for comment, but did not hear back before publishing.

    Trump made waves last July when he attacked Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam prisoner of war who was imprisoned for years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton torture camp, for being captured by enemy troops.


    “I don’t like losers,” Trump said during an event moderated by GOP focus group guru Frank Luntz. Trump was referring to McCain.


    “But he’s a war hero,” moderator Frank Luntz interjected.

    “He’s a war hero!”


    “He’s not a ‘war hero,’” Trump responded. “He’s a ‘war hero’ because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, okay? I hate to tell you.”

    http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/28/...al-foundation/

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    I can understand the Veterans' organizations not wanting to get involved in the melee of a Presidential campaign but if they can reap financial benefits while making it clear they aren't endorsing anyone they should.

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    This is a PDF list of the 22 Veterans groups that receiving support from Trump's fundraiser.

    https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MILI..._MR._TRUMP.pdf

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    Thanks for posting the list link, Newmexican! It was interesting to hear the media create all kinds of doubt about the integrity of the fundraiser and state on television that no one knows who is supposed to get the money. CNN and MSNBC both did this, even though the list was available at the event that any of their reporters could have picked up, scanned and forwarded to their broadcasting offices or gone to the website and forwarded the link. Yet all night they kept interviewing this strange vet organization called VoteVets.com and running the statement of another one run by a guy named Reickhoff attacking the fundraising event.

    The Media is so dishonest. I'm so glad Trump did this for the Vets while fighting back at Fox News. It was really a great rally, nice program, good speeches about important Vet issues.
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    Need to keep the field honest.

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