I am not a lawyer. I am unaware of charges on either side of the house. I just know from the IRS balance sheets @ http://seriousgivers.org/trump-and-clinton-foundation-tax-returns-are-easy-to-find/
Both Foundations in 2014 did not pay out very much. Personally I think they are both pretty crooked and as an independent, neither are Foundations to be proud of.
Trump's Foundation is small with total assets of under 2 million on the 2014 statements. This is what the Liberal army is up in arms over and the fact that he did not allocate his foundation's assets generously.
Clinton's Foundation is 332 Million for the same time period and the grants paid are 5.2 million. Now the salaries, benefits and expenses are almost 100 million. Considering these funds came from donations, it doesn't seem like the right people are seeing the money. Especially seeing that most of the remaining rolled over.
I get that many of you are Never-Trumpers. And I am ok with that. But to grab a pitch fork and think that the Trump Foundation is the smoking gun that you all have been waiting for, might just be a weak argument in the large scale of government ethics breaches.
Oh boy. Let's just break this down.
1. "I am unaware of charges on either side of the house."
Um-you could read the link that was posted about the charges against the Trump Foundation? You are welcome to go find some charges against the Clinton Foundation. I think you'll find that there aren't any. Now you are aware, and that's half the battle or something. Claiming you aren't aware at this point is sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting lalalalala.
2. "Trump's Foundation is small with total assets of under 2 million on the 2014 statements. This is what the Liberal army is up in arms over and the fact that he did not allocate his foundation's assets generously."
Liberal here. I'm not "up in arms" over the fact that his foundation is small. That seems more like something he'd be mad about? I also don't care that he did not allocate "generously". Instead, I think it's kind of gross that he allocated
illegally to himself. But, on a scale of gross things he's done, it's definitely not something I'm assembling an army over. I'm much more likely to care about the erosion of protections for pre-existing conditions in the ACA. Hell, I'm more made about him walking in on teen girls in their dressing room to ogle them. Oh, and I'm definitely mad that he's just not enforcing Russia sanctions signed into law. How does that even work?
3. "Clinton's Foundation is 332 Million for the same time period and the grants paid are 5.2 million. Now the salaries, benefits and expenses are almost 100 million"
That doesn't seem to be a correct reading of the data
https://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/25/reince-priebus/reince-priebus-false-claim-80-clinton-foundation-c/"The Clinton Foundation is an excellent charity," Charity Watch president Daniel Borochoff said Aug. 24, 2016, on CNN. "They are able to get 88 percent of their spending to bona fide program services and their fundraising efficiency is really low. It only costs them $2 to raise $100."
You look at all of that and conclude they "they are both pretty crooked". Even when one is facing charges for running a fraudulent charity and the other isn't. I just don't get it.
But it's weird how many of these rebuttals end in CLINTON IS JUST AS BAD and then the conclusion is SO I VOTED FOR TRUMP. Like, if you think they are both crooked, why not just balance the equation on both sides? If you delete crooked from both (btw-Trump is way more crooked than Hillary. Christ, he just settled a fraud case last year), you are left with "smart and experienced" on one side and "might start a nuclear war/doesn't seem to know important facts about government" on the other. For some reason, crooked attached to Hillary was a disqualifier for people, but they never applied that same standard to Trump. So, I think your larger point holds. It's not a smoking gun. Because Trump's base doesn't care that he's crooked.