a.g. eric schneider man are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in 18,80 18,800,000 and gaifr out to charity more money that it took in, $19,200,000. i won t settle this case. i m unaware of a case in which the foundation involved was run by a sitting president, but there s no reason why a foundation owned and operated by a sitting president should be exempt from the laws that we routinely apply to other foundations. cnn s jean casarez joins us from new york. jean, what do they allege that the president and his foundation have done wrong? that s right, it was filed
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this morning, 41 pages long. in essence, the donald trump chartable foundation was a shell, that it was actually to benefit donald j. trump personally and his businesses, and that was truly other moeftis besides a charitabl foundation. it allowed for political formation of the trump campaign. it goes into facts on that. it talks about, you might remember, the iowa fundraiser in january 2016. this was set up in lieu of donald trump participating in the republican presidential debate. it was sort of counterprogramming that night, you might remember, and the foundation asserted that the iowa fundraiser was to benefit the veterans, to collect moneys for them. but the petition says that is not the case. it says, quote, the ivestigation revealed that the
accounting for where the investments went and that it was run, really, as part of the trump campaign. one of the exhibits attached to the pleadings is a picture of a check, purportedly, of the foundation which has the slogan make america great again on the bottom of the check just to show the interrelationship in what she says is an improper interrelationship between the foundation and politics. so i think it looks, on its face, to be a dangerous suit for the president. dangerous suit for the president. paul callen, jean casarez. something else on the president s plate that could end up in court. the president in the singapore summit ends up in european propaganda.
iowa fundraiser was planned, organized, financed and directed by the campaign with administrative assistance from the foundation. now, we have just gotten a skwa scathing response back to all of this from the foundation itself, and it says in part, quote, this is politics at its very worst. the foundation has donated over 19 million to worthy charitable causes, more than it even received. the president himself or through his companies has contributed more than $8 million. the reason the foundation was able to donate more than it took in is because it had too little expenses. this is unheard of for a charitable foundation. the verified petition does go on to say that donald trump did not contribute any personal funds at all to this foundation since 2008. john? jean, appreciate that