Everything you really need to know about Eric Trump can be discerned from his portrayal on Saturday Night Live by Alex Moffatt. His “AND I’M ERIC!!” lampoon line is pretty much who he is, as he’s consistently shown a tendency to “say the quiet part LOUD! and the loud part quiet.
You can use an Eric Trump soundbite to perfectly encapsulate why our democracy is crumbling and our nation is falling apart- “we get all the funding we need out of Russia.”
Eric Trump is top ten trending nationally online today because he’s on the counter-attack. “To me, they’re not even people … Morality is just gone.” – Eric Trump Wednesday on his father’s critics. He’s ultra-defensive due to a bombshell story that broke yesterday in Forbes.
The Eric Trump Foundation skimmed money from an organization fighting pediatric cancer and funneled it into their coffers.
Literally, they took money from cancer stricken-kids, via a golf charity event, and stuffed it into their own pockets. You can’t make this stuff up.
The evil streak of Eric Trump matches his idiocy.
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Here’s an excerpt from the Forbes.com story, which will appear in print within the June 29th issue:
The Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has come under previous scrutiny for self-dealing and advancing the interests of its namesake rather than those of charity, apparently used the Eric Trump Foundation to funnel $100,000 in donations into revenue for the Trump Organization.
And while donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses.
All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors. It also raises larger questions about the Trump family dynamics and whether Eric and his brother, Don Jr., can be truly independent of their father.
Eric Trump with a transaction here that was truly “bigly” in its evilness. It was “tremendous” in its moral repugnance.
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