Жадность фраера

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"We'll lead the project like — it's called OPM. I do that all the time in business. It's called other people's money. There's nothing like doing things with other people's money."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/20/trump-brags-about-using-other-peoples-money/

Патологическая жадность и стремление использовать деньги других людей (OPM) для оплаты своих счетов - одна из самых характерных черт Трампа. За расследование того, как Трамп на протяжении многих лет не давал ни копейки на благотворительность, но изображал филантропа с помощью OPM, David Fahrenthold получил Пулитцеровскую премию.

Trump promised to give away the proceeds of Trump University. He promised to donate the salary he earned from “The Apprentice.” He promised to give personal donations to the charities chosen by contestants on “Celebrity Apprentice.” He promised to donate $250,000 to a charity helping Israeli soldiers and veterans.
Together, those pledges would have increased Trump’s lifetime giving by millions of dollars. But The Post has been unable to verify that he followed through on any of them.
Instead, The Post found that his personal giving has almost disappeared entirely in recent years. After calling 420-plus charities with some connection to Trump, The Post found only one personal gift from Trump between 2008 and the spring of this year. That was a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, in 2009. It was worth less than $10,000.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-philanthropy-but-his-giving-falls-short-of-his-words/2016/10/29/b3c03106-9ac7-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html



Ныне выясняется, что для оплаты адвокатов, которые защищают его и его сына в Рашагейте, Трамп использует не свои личные деньги, а деньги республиканской партии и избирательной кампании.

U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawyers-exclusive/trump-using-campaign-rnc-funds-to-pay-legal-bills-from-russia-probe-sources-idUSKCN1BU2OS

The RNC paid Trump's personal attorneys Jay Sekulow and John Dowd $131,250 and $100,000, respectively, via their law firms, the official said. The fees to Sekulow's law firm covered work by other attorneys at his firm, the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, a person familiar with the payments said.
The payments will be disclosed in the RNC's spending report for the month of August, which the committee plans to release on Wednesday.
The RNC has also begun to foot the legal payments of Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. The committee paid nearly $200,000 of Trump Jr.'s legal bills related to the Russia investigation, which he became embroiled in in part due to his meeting with an attorney he believed would provide him damaging information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government.
Trump Jr.'s attorneys Alan Futerfas and the law firm Williams & Jensen have been paid $166,527.50 and $30,102.90, respectively, this month, two RNC officials said. The payments will not appear in the RNC's August campaign finance disclosure scheduled for Wednesday, but on the next month's disclosure.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/politics/donald-trump-legal-fees-rnc/index.html

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