Dem Debate Fact Check: No, Trump Did Not Divert Money ‘Supposed to Go to Veterans’ – IOTW Report

Dem Debate Fact Check: No, Trump Did Not Divert Money ‘Supposed to Go to Veterans’

BREITBART:

CLAIM: President Donald Trump had to “confess” to “illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.”

VERDICT: False. The money did go to veterans.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed at Wednesday night’s Democrat debate that President Donald Trump ought to have left office after having to “confess, in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.”

Buttigieg misstated the finding of the court. The issue was that the money, which Trump raised in January 2016 at an event for veterans (in lieu of attending the Iowa caucuses debate), was distributed by the Trump campaign rather than the Trump Foundation.

As National Public Radio reported, “Justice Saliann Scarpulla says the funds did eventually reach charity organizations supporting veterans.” New York Attorney General Letitia James wanted the court to impose a higher penalty, but the judge refused because the money did, in the end, go to veterans’ charities. READ MORE

9 Comments on Dem Debate Fact Check: No, Trump Did Not Divert Money ‘Supposed to Go to Veterans’

  1. Never, never trust anything a Democrat or other Leftist says.

    No need to investigate it either, if it isn’t a direct lie itself it is being used to support a greater lie.

    Just never trust them.

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