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One I just ran across: JENNIFER HUDSON SANG FOR THE 2020 DNC CONVENTION, BUT IT WAS DONALD TRUMP WHO TOOK HER IN AFTER HER HORRIBLE 2008 TRAGEDYhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877986/postsOne America News reporter Pearson Sharp has a report today citing a dozen or so people Trump helped out over the years, completely unsolicited, where Trump had noreason to do so other than kindness. There was a time not so long ago that the liberal media gushed over Trump for his generosity for these acts of random kindness. Now the media try to pretend those acts of kindness never happened. For example, no mention of Trump in Jennifer Hudson's wikipedia listing. Orwell's tech media has wiped Trump's record clean of such acts.
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Another was a marine named Andrew Tahmooressi in 2014, who made a wrong turn in San Diego, and accidentally ended up on the Mexican side of the border. He was moving at the time, and had all his posessions in the car, including some firearms he owned, for which the Mexicans arrested him and put him in prison, where he stayed for a year or so, for no apparent reason. It is common for Mexicans in their prison system to arrest Americans, and then extort a ransom from the family to secure their release. Particularly disgusting because this guy is a U.S. marine. In the year or so he was imprisoned, then-president Obama never communicated with the Mexican government, in any attempt to secure his release, nothing. (This was one of two U.S. marined who were wrongfully imprisoned during Obama's presidency, he did nothing to help either, even as he attended the funerals of criminal thugs and gave presidential amnesty and/or accolades for violent marxist revolutionaries.) Finally, Tahmooressi was very ill in prison and almost died, and I think the Mexicans involved only set him free to avoid the wrath of the U.S. if he possibly died in prison. When Trump saw this in the news, he contacted Tahmooressee and in a letter thanked him for his military service, honored him, and rewarded him for his troubles with a check for $25,000. https://insider.foxnews.com/2014/11/10/donald-trump-writes-25k-check-sgt-andrew-tahmooressi
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Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
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Another I recall is a New York City bus driver, who drove on a bridge past a woman who was clearly about to jump and commit suicide. The driver stopped the bus and talked to her, and prevented her from taking her life. Trump read about it in the news, and sent the driver a check for $10,000, saying that his quick thinking saved a woman's life, and that the driver deserved to be rewarded for that. https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-offers-10g-to-hero-bus-driver
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- from Do Racists have lower IQ's...
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
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. President Donald Trump Probably Donated His Entire $1.6M Salary Back To The U.S. Government - by Adam Andrzejewski
The President of the United States makes $400,000 annually, before taxes. During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised to donate his salary if elected President. It was a promise, even his critics acknowledge, that Trump was keeping.
The presidential salary is a requirement of the U.S. Constitution in Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 and the specific amount is set by Congress. Presidents are not legally allowed to decline their salary, but can donate it to organizations of their choosing.
Trump is the first president since John F. Kennedy to donate his salary. Both John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover donated their presidential salaries to charitable causes. According to congressional records, George Washington initially declined his $25,000 salary, but Congress wouldn’t let him.
Trump’s first-quarter 2017 salary donation to the National Park Service was for $78,333, likely his take-home pay after taxes. The Park Service said an anonymous donor gave $22,000 to round the donation up to $100,000.
In subsequent press events, Trump presented personal checks for an even $100,000, indicating he was dipping into his own personal finances to make up the difference himself.
President Trump donated at least $1.4 million of the $1.6 million he earned as president to various federal agencies. Still in question, however, are the donations for the third and fourth quarters of 2020. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com verified fourteen of sixteen quarterly donations over four years.
We reached out to Trump’s spokesman to find out the details. We’ll update the piece if and when they provide any new information on the third and fourth quarter donations.- In 2017, President Trump gave:
Q1: $78,333 to the Department of Interior’s National Park Service (NPS) for maintenance backlog at historic battlefields. Specifically, the donation went to restore the Newcomer House on the Antietam battlefield and for the replacement of its deteriorated rail fencing.
Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Education to host a free, two-week space camp for 30 low-income, middle school girls. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received a $100,000 check in 2017, and announced a year later that the President’s donation had doubled the space camp’s participants.
Q3: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for “the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.”
Q4: $100,000 to the Department of Transportation to support its programs to “rebuild and modernize our crumbling infrastructure.”
In 2018, President Trump gave:
Q1: $100,000 to the Veteran’s Administration for “caregiver support in the form of mental health and peer support programs, financial aid, education training, and research.”
Q2: $100,000 to the Small Business Administration earmarked for a seven-month training program tailored for veteran entrepreneurs.
Q3: $100,000 to the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trump’s brother died of alcoholism-related causes at the age of 43.
Q4: $100,000 to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump tweeted, “While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didn’t do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!”
In 2019, President Trump gave:
Q1: $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be “used for outreach programs that benefit farmers[.]”
Q2: $100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Surgeon General. The President tweeted, “I donate 100% of my President’s salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!”
Q3: $100,000 to the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to “the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis.”
Q4: $100,000 to HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to “confront, contain, and combat #Coronavirus[.]”
In 2020, President Trump gave:
Q1: $100,000 to HHS to “develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.”
Q2: $100,000 to the NPS in July 2020 to help pay for repairs on national monuments. “I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President,” Trump tweeted. “I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to @NatlParkService to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!”
FURTHER READING
Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist No. 73, explains the intent for the President’s salary and its inability to be modified while the President is in office.
Forbes explains how the President can write off his donations.
Politifact: acknowledges Trump’s take-no-salary pledge was a “promise kept.”
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