Trump spent charity money on business fines, portrait: report

Donald Trump spent $258,000 from his charity to settle business fines and lawsuits, according to a report Tuesday. Not only did the GOP nominee fail to donate to his own charity since 2009, he used other people’s charitable donations to solve legal troubles at his for-profit businesses, the Washington Post reported. In one example, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club owed $120,000 in unpaid fines in 2007 over a flagpole dispute. Trump also wrote a $158,000 check from the Trump Foundation to settle a lawsuit involving one of his golf courses in New York to the plaintiff’s charity. Jeffrey Tenebaum, Lawyer at Venable law firm in Washington Trump also spent $10,000 from the foundation for another portrait of himself at a charity fundraiser in 2014, adding to the $20,000 portrait purchased in 2007, the Washington Post said.