It seems President-elect Donald Trump has his own version of the Clinton Foundation:
The Center for Public Integrity:
A new Texas nonprofit led by Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to the freshly-minted president during inauguration weekend — all in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity.While this is perfectly legal, it is no less disturbing. It is going to be a long four years.
And the donors’ identities may never be known.
Prospective million-dollar donors to the “Opening Day 2017” event — slated for Jan. 21, the day after inauguration, at Washington, D.C.’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center — receive a “private reception and photo opportunity for 16 guests with President Donald J. Trump,” a “multi-day hunting and/or fishing excursion for 4 guests with Donald Trump, Jr. and/or Eric Trump, and team,” as well as tickets to other events and “autographed guitars by an Opening Day 2017 performer.”
...A Center for Public Integrity review of Texas incorporation records found the Opening Day Foundation was created less than a week ago, on Dec. 14. Unlike political committees, such nonprofits aren’t required by law to reveal their donors, allowing sponsors to write seven-figure checks for access to the president while staying anonymous, if they choose.
The paperwork for the Opening Day Foundation listed four directors: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Dallas investor Gentry Beach and Tom Hicks Jr., the son of a Dallas billionaire.
Beach and Hicks are reportedly close friends with Donald Trump Jr., and both men helped raise millions of dollars for Trump’s campaign.
On the other hand, it could have been equally long...
USAToday:
The FBI warrant that shook Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in its final two weeks has been unsealed, and the lawyer who requested it says it offers "nothing at all" to merit the agency's actions leading up to the Nov. 8 election.You really want to open this can of worms again? Ok...
The warrant was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Los Angeles lawyer Randy Schoenberg, who wants to determine what probable cause the agency provided to suspect material on disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner’s computer might be incriminating to Clinton. Weiner is the estranged husband of Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin. Under the Fourth Amendment, search and seizure can only be granted when proof of probable cause of criminal findings has been documented.
They had enough evidence to convict Hillary, but chose to leave it in the court of public opinion instead. With that in mind, this search was perfectly logical, considering Weiner was already in other legal trouble, and he was married to one of Clinton's top aides, even if you put aside the fact the FBI already knew what they would find (more classified emails).
Moving on to other Leftist topics...
BBC News:
A Wisconsin charter school teacher has been suspended after giving students an essay to defend the Ku Klux Klan.In order to reason properly, one must first be able to look at all sides of an issue, and not just the sides with which they are comfortable. These parents and this school did their children no favors.
The Milwaukee educator said in a letter to parents that the students would write a paper defending the white supremacy group.
The teacher, who is African-American, emphasised the goal was to teach seventh-graders to write persuasively.
The school withdrew the assignment, adding it believed there was no malicious intent involved.
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