"What's Wrong With You, Man?" Tweet And Link*

Trump crashed a charity event for kids with AIDS, sat on stage, danced the Macarena, left without giving a dime. https://t.co/VsFXTokjdR

— Steven Ginsberg (@stevenjay) October 29, 2016

This tweet refers to another exemplary report from David Fahrenthold, this time on neo- fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump's (understatement alert) lack of charity.  This is more proof, if more were needed, that this "thing" that (allegedly!) FBI Director Comey and parts of the puerile media seem determined to give a boost to, is a sociopathic narcissist.  Please read Fahrenthold's article -- guaranteed to make your blood boil.

* You need to go to the link to see the context of the quote.

Nyet! Trump Won't Be Releasing His Tax Returns

The Hill is reporting that neo- fascist banana Republican and Siberian candidate Donald "Rump" Trump, contrary to decades of custom, won't be releasing his tax returns.

We wonder why.

He's a tax fraud?

He didn't pay any taxes?

He lied about donating to charities?

He's dependent on loans from Putin oligarch buddies?

All of the above?

Coming on the heels of revelations that the hacking of the DNC e- mails was a Russian operation, curiously timed to benefit Rump and do damage to Hillary Clinton, added to the long- known fact that many of Rump's advisors have serious Russian connections, we're inclined to believe that what the Rump campaign fears most in his tax returns is that his business interests would be exposed as way too cozy and interdependent with the Russian despot, whose desire to weaken American interests is a given. Or, as Rump himself would speculate, "There’s something fishy about the whole thing... Obviously some people think it’s evil intentions. I think it’s incompetence. Regardless, a lot of people think it’s evil intentions... I don’t know. All I know is what’s on the Internet. Wow!"  (Credit to frequent blind squirrel Dana Milbank who riffs on this here.)

And "let's dispel once and for all with the notion" that having the IRS auditing you precludes release.  It doesn't.

Finally,

Same reporters who laughed at the idea that Donald Trump would run for president now mock the idea that he could be owned by foreign power.

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 27, 2016

Great moments in Republican/Russian relations:
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
"Mr. Putin, can I borrow a few hundred million more?"

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 27, 2016

Note to journalists (other than Franklin Foer and Josh Marshall):  Do your f*cking jobs!

Letters We Wish We'd Written Dept. - The "Modest" Donald Trump

From this morning's once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle:

According to the July 7 news article “Eric Trump says his father gives ‘millions and millions’ to charitable causes,” Eric Trump said his father’s modesty prevents him from publicly revealing his generous charitable contributions totaling in the millions of dollars. Is that the same modesty that motivates his father, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, to slap his name on buildings, golf courses, casinos, airlines, board games, magazines, mortgages, universities, colognes, mattresses, menswear, vodka and steaks? 

Or is that the same modesty on display by the self-proclaimed world’s least racist person, best dealmaker, best wall-builder, best foreign-policy analyst and, of course, greatest president ever, if elected? 

Peter S. Bernard, Silver Spring

To be fair, there are some truly "modest" aspects of neo- fascist narcissist Donald "Rump" Trump, like, uh, his hands ...

Today's Cartoon - The Magic Of Giving

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(Tom Toles, once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle)

Shocking! Money-Grubbing Trump Not So Charitable After All

The once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle has a look at the claims by neo- fascist shitgibbon* Donald "Rump" Trump that he's given away millions to charity.  As with the vast majority of what comes out of Rump's pie- hole, the pathological liar does what pathological liars do:

In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans’ families. 

Before that, however, when was the last time that Trump had given any of his own money to a charity? [snip]

 ...[I]n the 15 years prior to the veterans’ gift, public records show that Trump donated about $2.8 million through a foundation set up to give his money away — less than a third of the pledged amount — and nothing since 2009. Records show Trump has given nothing to his foundation since 2008.  [snip]

In recent weeks, The Post tried to answer the question by digging up records going back to the late 1980s and canvassing a wide swath of nonprofits with some connection to Trump. 

That research showed that Trump has a long-standing habit of promising to give to charity. But Trump’s follow-through on those promises was middling — even at the beginning, in his early days as a national celebrity. [snip]

In recent years, Trump’s ­follow-through on his promises has been seemingly nonexistent. 

The Post contacted 188 charities searching for evidence of personal gifts from Trump in the period between 2008 and this May. The Post sought out charities that had some link to Trump, either because he had given them his foundation’s money, appeared at their charity galas or praised them publicly. 

The search turned up just one donation in that period — a 2009 gift of between $5,000 and $9,999 to the Police Athletic League of New York City.  (our emphasis)

One donation.  One, for less than $10,000, since 2009.  When he did open his wallet, Rump gave much more to the tony schools his spawn attended than to worthy charities like AIDS research and helping the homeless. We think we'd be on very safe ground to say the average middle- class American gave much more to charity in that timeframe than did this purported billionaire.

The entire article is worth a read because it shows, as if the point needed amplifying, what a lying narcissist Rump is and why he's refusing to release his tax returns.  His paltry non- existent "charitable" giving is just one more of the "bombshells" =cough= paid no taxes =cough= he's eager to hide from public view.

*Long live Scotland!

Headline Of The Day - Sweet Charity!

... goes to Wonkette:

art of the steal
Turns Out Donald Trump’s Idea Of Charity Involves A Lot Of Golf

What's the context you ask?  Well, there's news this morning that philanthropist scum bag Donald "Rump" Trump has been "embellishing" the reality of his "charitable" contributions (yes, shocking, we know), which his campaign claimed was "$102 million over 5 years."  Wow, $102 million!  What a prince, right?  So has he made any cash donations from his own pocket?  Why, no, no he hasn't!  Well, what kind of "charitable contributions" is his campaign referring to?

[M]any of the gifts that Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles. [snip]

Trump listed a donation to “Serena Williams Group” in February 2015, valued at exactly $1,136.56. A spokeswoman for the tennis star said she had attended a ribbon-cutting at Trump’s Loudoun County, Va., golf course that year for a new tennis center. But Trump hadn’t donated to her charity. Instead, he had given her a free ride from Florida on his plane and a free framed photo of herself.  (our emphasis)

Well, at least it wasn't a photo of himself.

There's more revolting detail at the once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle, which is apparently taking a break in its constant shellacking of Democratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to note a true con artist at work.  If this guy isn't the prototype of phony, cheating, self- aggrandizing, narcissistic, clueless plutocrat Republicans, we don't know who is.