its actually amazing how squeaky clean he really is.

You'd think they'd have something more serious than buying a portrait of himself for twice the asking price from a charity.

No. He didn't buy that painting. According to his lawyer in a court transcript, that painting was put up for auction by his Trump Foundation Charity to raise money. He started the bidding at $10,000. When no one else put in a bid (because no one wanted it), he was forced to pay the $10,000.

EXCEPT

He directed the Trump Foundation Charity to pay for it.
Which they did.

So...he "bought" a painting of himself that no one else wanted with money from the charity that was trying to sell the painting to raise money. And used money that other people had given the charity.

Fake news. Did you snopes that?

He was at a charity auction and yes he used the Trump charity to buy a Trump portrait which he put in a Trump tower. His foundation spent money on a charity, which is exactly what foundations do.

The initial bid was low. Melana outbid the initial bid. The auctioneer made a joke about raising the price so Trump had Melana DOUBLE the bid even though she had already won the bid. Pretty nice of him if you ask me. Funny how that information is being suppressed.

What exactly should he have done with the painting in your opinion? Stick it in storage seems to be the only safe answer. Don't say donate it to a museum, they don't want paintings like that. It would again, have ended up in storage.

Seriously, $10,000? That's like you going to court over a dollar. This is one of the most pathetic attempts by leftists to smear the president. On the bright side, nobody had to die like in Puerto Rico just to take a jab at Trump.

Furthermore, he's cooperated fully at every turn. When you get a speeding ticket, you violate the law. If you do all the proper procedures, it's nothing more than a fine. That's exactly how Trump is handling these nit picky violations the left is digging up.

How about looking at your own political champions and nit picking people like Obama and Hillary.

What should he have done? Paid the $10K out of his own billionaire pocket, that's what. What's 10K to a billionaire?

But having your own charity pay for your painting? 1: that's some scumbag level stuff. 2: that's called Self-Dealing. It's illegal. That's breaking the law. Even if it's $1 or $1,000,000 or $10,000. Just be clear: you're brushing off violating the law because "it's only X and no big deal."

Go back and delete all your comments about any politician going to jail for any crime. And don't make any future comments about any politician going to jail for any crime.

Ever gotten a speeding ticket, you lousy rotten law breaking scumbag?

Like I said, his minor infractions are being dealt with 100% legally. That doesn't warrant impeachment, arrest, or even criticism. Nobody walks around with perfect knowledge and adherence to the law. What's happening is the left are attacking Trump and making him pay fines for every time they can find evidence of him jay walking or forgetting to use a turn signal.

Do you know what Foundations do? They give money to charities. It just so happened that rather than take donations, that charity thought it would be a good idea to "auction" off prizes for potential donors. They knew when they contracted the artist to make the portrait that Trump would be buying the painting. There was no doubt. They were in contact with him from day 1.

People like you are suckers. You actually believe the mole hills are mountains.

You didn't answer the question. What should Trump have done with the painting?

You're missing a key point. The Trump Foundation was holding the auction to raise money. He got caught with the high bid- regardless if he had his wife actually make the bit. He directed his Foundation to pay itself for the painting.

If he had paid for it out of his own pocket- IDGAF what he did with the painting.
But that's not what he did. And it looks like from the charges being brought by the NY AG, it didn't happen once. It happened a bunch of times.

But you, Grind and all the #maga nutjobs out there are the biggest suckers. you think a guy pretending to be a billionaire gives a damn about you or anything but himself. he's here to make money and do the bidding of his Russian master.

You're messing up a key point. Who received the money?

Secondly, it doesn't matter! Again, it's a mole hill not a mountain. No amount of liberal tears is going to turn this into anything substantial. It's barely a slap on the wrist legally, especially since he's been following all the legal procedures to take care of it.

You still haven't answered the question I asked about what should he have done with the painting.

Now that you're nice and entrenched in your position that people that use their own foundations for personal profit are the worst scum of the earth and deserve punishment, lets check your hypocrisy meter:

The Clinton Foundation has been deemed to be a For Profit Foundation by private investigators testifying before congress. They've also been deemed a Foreign Agent. It's extremely likely (borderline 100%) that the Clintons will be guilty of the same thing Trump did, but with hundreds of millions of dollars. They also took hundreds of millions of dollars from a Russian company that bought Uranium One.

How do you feel about that Self-Dealing? How do you feel about that Russian collusion?

It doesn't matter what you think. Trump gets off with almost no consequences for his parking ticket equivalent crimes and the Clintons and a whole lot more go to jail.

I really hope you keep your convictions about Self Dealing and Foreign Collusion. Trump has trolled the heck outa libtards.

When you’re as desperate as leftists are to dig up dirt on Trump, you take what you get and make a mountain out of it

It's so sad, and really true. They'll do anything for a little dirt on him. Stormy Daniels is another good example. They must have promised that she'd be some kind of hero or get a good payday. Little did she know they coaxed her into breaking a non-disclosure agreement and left her to pay that legal debt herself.

Clinton caused how many deaths in Ben Ghazi?

And Trump caused... what? A charity foundation to... neither lose nor gain money? So he caused them to break even? THAT NAZI SWINE!

Number of deaths caused by Clinton in Benghazi? According to Trey Gowdy, the Republican Representative who investigated her 12 times: 0.

Says the dummy who wants someone to go to Gitmo for deleting emails.

I channeled you for my intro sentence, did you see?

I want Hillary in prison for treason, not emails.

However, that email thing is an example of what not to do when you get caught breaking the law. That's like getting pulled over for a speeding ticket and then bolting on foot because you've got illegal substances in the trunk.

I came to the comments see constructive political arguments. Instead, I see people arguing about a painting. Well done imgflip.

Seems his university was a con that got shut down, his charity was a con that got shut down , he filled his administration with people who've had numerous ethics violations, people around him are in jail, the Mueller investigation grand jury just got extended another 6 months, and he just hired 17 lawyers....
maybe it's all good though...?

Hiring the Clinton’s friends & padding the payroll

Mar-a-lago.. the cash cow that keeps on giving.

Yet he seized $42 million from Trump's good buddy Manafort, so he's actually made a profit.

So far he's "forfeited five New York homes worth an estimated $22 million as part of his plea deal with Mueller, including a Trump Tower condo."

Who sells and what price? After loans are paid it’s just a photo op

I don't understand the question.

Paul Manafort (the guy that worked as a campaign advisor to Russia's puppet leader in the Ukraine (whose political opponent was poisoned), and later as the campaign chairman for Donald Trump, and who also enjoyed coercing his wife to have orgies with other men) was convicted of tax fraud, failing to disclose his foreign bank accounts, bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and witness tampering.

As part of his guilty plea, he agreed to forfeit to the government cash, homes, an ostrich-skin jacket, $18,000 karaoke set, and anything else that he obtained through that fraud. The government will sell them at market rates and keep the money.

(I'm not sure why some articles says $22 million and others say $46 million.)

2016 - No russian collusion
2017 - No russian collusion
2018 - No russian collusion

3 years and nothing. When is enough, enough?

Grind: 3 years and nothing. When is enough, enough?
Hillary: Hold my beer.
:P

Idk dude.

Now that her and all her friends are out of power it looks like everything is catching up to her.

The Clinton Foundation has been shown to be a Foreign Agent and is actually a for profit organization. That means they've been scamming the government and committing treason.

I haven't seen her on the news, or Obama, since December. They used to make headlines every other day. What if she's already been locked up?

Ya... The feds must be busy still shutting down Donald's charity to deal with shutting down Hillary's yet. Sooner or later it will happen though.

Trump tried to shutdown his own charity but a judge blocked him from doing it so the democrats could have one more thing to nit pick him with.

Man ... Trump couldn't even successfully shut down his own charity??
Lol