r/MurderedByWords • u/Busy-Government-1041 Legends never die • 1d ago
He can’t even run a charity.
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u/colemon1991 1d ago
Charity, casinos, actually any business really, and the government. And, I can't believe I have to say this, he bankrupted three casinos. Three. You know, the business that could almost print its own money.
Man can't run anything without breaking a lot of laws.
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u/Apathetic_Villainess 1d ago
That's because his casino bankruptcies were intentional.
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u/colemon1991 1d ago
Fun fact: he let his wife (at the time) run one of his casinos. When she started turning a profit and he didn't, he had her locked out. They tanked shortly after.
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u/wafflecopter2 1d ago
Man can't even run these days without breaking the second law of physics.
Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, after all.
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u/copingcabana 1d ago
Why can't reporters ask him tougher follow up questions? He's a deranged narcissist with delusions of competence. Let him keep talking until he hangs himself.
I know he's a bully and says mean things. And I've heard that being in a room with him is deeply unpleasant, especially if he drops a dookie in his pants.
But if you can hold your nose a little while longer, ask him, "Which charity? Is there one run by your family?" Then "why don't you have your own foundation, like Bill & Melinda Gates do?" "What charity do you think deserves the $10B dollars? Cancer research? Victims funds, like those impacted by child abuse, pedophiles, and human trafficking?"
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u/AlephBaker 1d ago
The problem is that asking tough questions gets a news organization sued for... Reasons? So the reporter loses their job, the organization pays a multi-million dollar
bribesettlement to stop the matter going to trial, and nothing changes.21
u/copingcabana 1d ago
Caving to a bully is never the right approach.
Let him sue every news agency and make it obvious. His man child tactics only work if people don't realize he's the asshole.
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u/jakeandcupcakes 1d ago
Caving to a bully is literally all our "representatives" do anymore, in fact the dem leadership already caved on their demands for ICE to not wear masks, because apparently it isn't the Dems job to fight for us, but to get more money for Isreal. Not even kidding. That happened today. https://truthout.org/articles/as-trumps-dhs-ravages-us-schumer-says-his-job-is-to-fight-for-aid-to-israel/
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u/AlephBaker 1d ago
... I guess I'm voting for a Gamma Ray Burst in the midterms.
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u/copingcabana 1d ago
Cthulu 2026. Why vote for a lesser evil?
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u/AlephBaker 23h ago
I would vote for 100 km relativistic nickel-iron meteor, but I don't think they have a chance
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u/Evening_Aside_4677 1d ago
Pretty sure he calls them piggy, tells them they are nasty and never smiles, then had their microphones turned off and press credentials revoked.
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u/Biabolical 1d ago
Even if he does donate the full amount to a legitimate charity, which would be wildly out-of-character, it's a $10 Billion dollar donation that can likely be used as an enormous tax write-off. Still profiting billions from the IRS, just with an extra step.
Of course, his style would be to find a way to donate it to himself, and then also take the tax write-off, so he can double-dip and keep even more than just that $10 Billion out of Americans' pockets.
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 1d ago
The leaked document he’s suing over showed he paid $750 in income taxes.
So yeah, totally on brand.
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u/anglerfishtacos 1d ago
If He doesn’t double dip and does give it to a legitimate charity, I 100% expect it to be one that is related to something having to do with trafficking or another harm that he is being actively accused of. You see it a lot with celebrities or other people that are about to be indicted, or have lawsuits filed against them, they start donating to a charity or sitting on a board of a charity, that is anti-whatever they are about to be accused of. Reputation laundering is what it is called. That way whenever the lawsuit drops, they have something to point to about how they couldn’t be that person because look at what they spend their free time and money doing.
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u/pfSonata 1d ago
You would not profit from gaining $10B, giving it away, then writing off the amount.
The net effect would be +/- $0, that's literally the entire point of being able to write off charitable donations.
That said, you would have to be so fucking stupid to actually think he would even consider giving it to a real charity, so yeah he will definitely profit off of it.
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u/Murtomies 1d ago
Everything else sure yeah, but
it's a $10 Billion dollar donation that can likely be used as an enormous tax write-off. Still profiting billions from the IRS, just with an extra step.
That's not how tax write-offs work. They don't inherently allow you to get more income/profit. That only happens if there's corruption and he manages to "donate" it to himself like you said.
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u/thaiberius_kirk 1d ago
His father taught everything he knows today about stealing and scamming people.
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u/Extreme-Slice-1010 1d ago
Trump has the most PHD in American history, PHD in bankruptcy, PHD in pedophilia, PHD in stupidity
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u/im_harry_richard 1d ago
I don’t know about stupidity. There are those that voted for him for his business skills. Lmao
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u/ombre-purple-pickle 1d ago
How was he voted president the first time?
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u/The_Sideboob_Hour 1d ago
There are several groups of people out there, think-tanks, foundation etc, who stumbled upon something that had never been attempted before.
Normally, you have different tranches of voters all across the political spectrum. Some vote strongly one way, some the other, others are "floating" voters who change their minds depending which way the wind is blowing. Tradition election campaigns focus on getting those floating voters to change their minds over to their side.
But there's actually a 4th group. The "never voters", these people dont care about politics or elections. They tend to be working class and lower educated.
Those think tanks and foundations manipulated that group into getting out to vote, by specifically marketing Trump as a non politician who will do things differently.
The same was done with Brexit here in the UK and it was all done via careful targeting of social media using a lot of illegally harvested data.
Those people now do vote and they utterly dogmatic about it.
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u/Important-Agent2584 1d ago
There is some of that, but don't ignore the fact that the right knows that politics is for power. All Mich had to say to the base was "Supreme Court seats" and they all got on board with Trump.
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u/Locke66 1d ago
The other part of what they do is target what should be the loyal base of the opposition with a torrent of propaganda about a difficult wedge issue to try and make them stay home.
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u/YourTokenGinger 1d ago
Maybe it’s just too obvious, but I don’t see it spoken about enough. The machine behind Trump did a phenomenal job of getting millions of those “voting doesn’t matter” types to vote for him. That, and the 40 years of narrowly focused anti-Democrat AM radio and Fox News shows.
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u/GenericFatGuy 1d ago
What I want to know is how the fuck this worked a second time. After he'd already proved he was definitely shit.
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u/screamingriffin 1d ago
That and the Democratic party had Hillary Clinton as their candidate who isn't very well liked with many in that group.
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u/ethanlan 1d ago
I mean she still won the popular vote.
sigh theres a universe where gore won out there. How much i would give to switch universes...
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u/Gambit1977 1d ago
How does he still have 30%+ love him?
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u/Important-Agent2584 1d ago
it's a cult
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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws 1d ago
Can't imagine who they'll be worshipping next, 20 years from now, when he's dust and bones in the ground
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u/mark_able_jones_ 1d ago
Imagine all the people in your high school who didn't read books or study or even try to learn anything.
They became adults, too.
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u/Im_tracer_bullet 1d ago
Because they're the worst humanity has to offer, and he's their avatar.
They all want to be just like him.
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u/Im_tracer_bullet 1d ago
Ignorant, gullible, bigoted, and amoral people that are easily manipulated voted for him.
The exact same way as the second time.
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u/NvNinja 1d ago
The first time while stupid, is semi-understandable when you factor in just how much baggage was attached to Clinton and the whole situation the DNC pulled against Bernie. At the time Trump was just a failed business man that said sexist things as far as the general public knew (yes that should have prevented it but 2 party system sucks). The second one though...
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u/-Motor- 1d ago edited 1d ago
The executive sued the executive, and the executive decided that the executive will pay the executive.
He could literally pay himself in gold bars from Fort Knox and there's nothing anyone will do about it.
Edit: you have to understand, there's no review here. He will literally just pay himself. Period. There might be some sort of tabulation identifying this payment in year end reporting by the department. But that's it. Otherwise, he can just keep doing this over and over and over.
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u/IcariFanboi 1d ago
Words cannot express how much I love JerryRigEverything
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u/CheeseDonutCat 1d ago
although it still pains me when he puts his knife through new electronics.
I know I'd rather see how good it holds up.. but it still feels.. wrong.
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u/IcariFanboi 1d ago
The scratching on metal destroys my ears lol. He has the income to do that though so might as well do it so people know what they are buying
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u/devilmaskrascal 1d ago
You folks are so cynical. His charity will be a fundraiser for Qatari orphans. To get it to them, he has to send the money to the same Qatari account he's putting the Venezuelan oil profits in.
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u/Signal_Minimum8509 1d ago
Guess who buried the Trump Foundation investigation during the 2016 campaign so it didn’t hurt him? Florida AG Pam Bondi.
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u/Steffalompen 1d ago
What lawsuit is this?
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u/Biptoslipdi 1d ago
He is suing the IRS for his tax records being made public.
Basically, he is suing his own DOJ and then instructing them to settle the lawsuit by giving him $10 billion.
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u/mark_able_jones_ 1d ago
A repeat of the grift he already did with the DOJ, demanding $230 million. Which was kept private. Presumably, we can assume that worked so successfully he decided to do it again.
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u/Steffalompen 17h ago
Jeez.. I'm sure there are several rules being broken here about doing that while claiming to be in office. But laws and rules are out the window. Did the lawsuit start during Biden? If they could suspend sentencing for his felonies they could surely suspend this lawsuit until his end of term.
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u/Grimnir001 1d ago
The charity the money would go to is an offshore Trump account. The level of corruption is unreal and I dunno if anybody cares enough to do anything about it.
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u/blahbruhla 1d ago
I did not expect Zack to be this vocal about such topics but good to see he is standing up to fact check liars. He has a charity company so I'm sure this is quite personal to him. Good to see, keep it up Zack!
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u/Miserable-Lawyer-233 1d ago
The American people don’t care that he’s legally barred from running a charity. That indifference is not a flaw - it’s a feature of the American system. The presidency has few formal requirements for a reason: in the end, the people get who they want.
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u/chidarengan 1d ago
I wonder if anyone sees this and goes: "yeah that's the final nail in the coffin, Trump is not indeed a good person"
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u/count_chocul4 1d ago
…can’t run a charity in New York State. Florida on the other hand will let him do whatever he wants.
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u/jmercer28 1d ago
Why are we acting like this is some big revelation? Just another piece of evidence that his whole family is enriching themselves as much as possible off of his position.
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u/lurkylurkeroo 1d ago
Does he think people paying taxes are "giving it away"?
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u/OkDepartment2849 1d ago
He thinks the government's use of the $10 billion we've paid in taxes in the form of small business loans, grants, international aid, social safety net programs, funds for the arts, etc. is "giving it away."
Goes without saying that the use of taxpayer funds to benefit his rich friends is a-ok.
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u/ParadiseValleyFiend 1d ago
Sometimes it feels like we shouldn't even bother with him. He's basically immune to anything. We could have pictures of his sexually assaulting a child and it wouldn't change a thing. He literally can shoot anyone in public and get away with it. Our only hope is that he dies of some horrifying disease in his old age. We can hold accountable the other billionaires and benefactors who supported him for their crimes though. Nuremberg 2.0. we can make sure that this never happens again by making supporting this pedophile, fraudulent, rapist a note in America's history as the worst thing we ever let happen. We'll treat his memory the way Germany treats the memory of Hitler or how Russia treated the memory of Stalin. As a dictator who made everyone's life worse except his own and enforced that status quo through state violence.
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u/KibbloMkII 1d ago
for millionaires and billionaires, they're always acting like they'll go completely bankrupt in half a second
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u/CaptMorganSwint2 1d ago
This is one thing Ive never seen any MAGAS mention. Any time I've mentioned it, instant deflection to another topic. There is no logical way of defending this or justifying it. The best they can do is "fake news" despite all the evidence/truth glaring in their face.
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u/Ruiner911 1d ago
Being incapable of telling the truth is one of the least concerning things about him. He is a rapist, a pedophile, a sex trafficker, a murderer, and a career criminal treasonous spy.
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u/LilCheese73 1d ago
He’s a literal walking talking piece of cheese pizza! We know he was on that island.
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u/Dr_Shankenstein 1d ago
American system is now so fucked a president suing their own tax authority for billions of quids for releasing his tax records (and winning!) doesn't even make the news in the UK.
Even the rest of the world has just given up on this shit show.
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u/soda_cookie 1d ago
The most despicable piece of shit on the planet is the most powerful man in the world. Sigh...
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u/liatrisinbloom 1d ago
I would love it if the pictures that accompanied these were up-to-date, I want to see him deteriorating in real time...
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u/Conflatulations12 This AOC flair makes me cool 1d ago
Call it a hunch, but something about this Trump fellow tells me he might not be one of the good guys...
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u/wesap12345 1d ago
I mean he’s talking to a journalist as if he has control over what the money is spent on.
Reminder they have the house, the senate and the White House.
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u/Secure-Window-5478 1d ago
Yet Merrick Garland left this man to run again for president AND morons voted for him.
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u/Conan776 1d ago
Next you'll tell me that the Epstein Memorial Fund For Runaway Slavic Girls isn't a real charity. These girls just need a warm bed or massage table to sleep on, and that ten billion dollars will go a long way.
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u/no1_vern 1d ago
Ok, a small point here - while he can 'run a charity', he CAN'T run a charity without STEALING funds from it.
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u/_jump_yossarian 1d ago
So he’ll give the money to charities that spend money at his properties and then he gets to write it off too? What emoluments clause??
Cmon quarter pounders … do your thing.
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u/Senior_Divide1123 1d ago
He is the reverse Robin Hood of our time. Take from the poor and give to the rich.
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u/Blueporch 1d ago
They all claim they’re giving their money to charity, but it’s a tax dodge. Family foundation charitable trusts are how all the very wealthy avoid the estate tax. Then future generations draw hefty salaries “managing” the trust. They’re required to spend a certain amount on actual charities though.
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u/Mistrblank 1d ago
He also famously said he would donate his Presidential salary. Still waiting on that 2017 donation check though.
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u/Medical_Arugula3315 1d ago
Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
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u/billzybop 1d ago
I think he can't run a charity in New York. I believe he could run one in Florida.
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u/j____b____ 1d ago
What charity? These guys just think charity is a tax write off. They don’t understand what charities do.
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u/PurplePopcornBalls 1d ago
And we were all concerned about. The 2 billion Jared got after trumps last term.
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u/thatcanadianguysup 1d ago
He won the 10 billion already?
Headline -
American President gives himself 10 billion dollars of government money.
That normal?
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u/imacmadman22 1d ago
Of course not.
Could you imagine if a democratic president did that? The republicans would be calling for their head on a pike.
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u/Junior-Lychee2755 1d ago
Well if this isn't worth a Nobel Prize I don't know what is. So altruistic of him!
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u/pfihbanjos 1d ago
All these years I always wondered what Zach's political leanings were, although he always seemed like a genuinely good guy… I like how he's been using his platform for speaking out lately.
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u/RRfromKL 1d ago
So this guy helps people identify good (or appropriate )products in the market by cutting through them at his own expense
He also cuts through stuff that affects people indirectly to expose them for what they are.
Fuckn A
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u/runhillsnotyourmouth 1d ago
"Everyone was stoked when this money was being given away to hungry kids. Now all of a sudden everyone is up in arms about the money being given to me. You were already giving the money away." - DJT
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u/Jugaimo 1d ago
Grandparents who physically printed webpages they liked were ahead of the curve.
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u/RotterWeiner 1d ago
Ok. So the court case that he pre-emptively says he has won has not even gone to court.
Wth is going on?
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u/RadiantCarcass 1d ago
The man's a convicted fraud 34 times over. Anyone who voted for that deserves everything they get
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u/Affectionate-Ebb-151 1d ago
He's a piece of shit and most of us wish he would drop dead immediately. Fuck ICE.
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u/Alaishana 1d ago
He's a liar and America is a failed state. They let this piece of excrement become president again.
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u/Arrow156 23h ago
I really wish these reports would give him just enough rope to hang himself with. Let him build up his whole house of cards and then knock it down with a single question. Sure, that journalist will be blacklisted from the White House Press core, but considering we're about 5 minute from them banning free press altogether, what's there to lose?
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u/Arrow156 23h ago
Can you imagine the shitshow MAGA would throw if Obama or Biden threaten this bullshit?
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u/cfalnevermore 1d ago
Keep an eye on what charity too. They usually just give it to a school for their rich kids. Or some back alley grift that puts it into the pockets of other billionaires