foundations. this complaint included new details about the trump foundation. among them, that its board has not met in 19 years and that its official treasurer was an employee of the president s private business, who did not even know he was on the foundation s board. also according to the complaint, the foundation coordinated illegally with the trump campaign on a fund-raiser for veterans in 2016, just days before the iowa caucuses where the candidate announced a donation of his own. donald trump, another great builder in new york, now a politician i can t stand this. a politician? i don t want to be called a politician. all tack, no action. i refuse to be called a politician. donald trump gave $1 million, okay? trump posted this message today in reaction to this lawsuit, and we quote. the sleazy new york democrats and their now disgraced and run out of town attorney general eric schneiderman, are doing
going on here. these lawyers at the top were trying to influence an election and then undermine a presidency. i look at james comey. it s like the liberal version of the sor orty sister. when i see what s going on, i think i see what everyone else in america is seeing, and they should be disgusted. separate track. while all that was unfolding, the president was hit with more legal trouble today, this time involving his personal charity. a lawsuit filed today here in new york by the new york state attorney general against the president and his three oldest children is alleging the trump foundation engaged in, quote, a pattern of persistent illegal conduct occurring over more than a decade that includes extensive unlawful political coordination with the trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit mr. trump s personal and business interests, and violations of basic legal obligations for nonprofit
tyrants. let s be clear about that. we did that during the cold war and never called them our best friends or went out of our way to call them smart or terrific negotiators or terrific relationships after a couple of hours with them. there was a notion that yes, we need to do the deals because it is in america s national interest but we had no illusion about who the soviets were. president trump should study the history before the next summit. the washington post out with a story, quote, after arriving in singapore on sunday a bored trump urged the aides to demand the meeting pushed up by a day and talked out of the altering the long plan summit date on the fly. we are here now, why can t we just do that. one of the reasons is because it will be on television late
what is the national interest in doing that? what s what i come back to. if there s a gain to be made for national security or the welfare from doing that, i can understand it. as of today, i don t understand what we get out of it. you can do arms control with tyrants. let s be clear about that. we did that during the cold war and never called them our best friends or went out of our way to call them smart or terrific negotiators or terrific relationships after a couple of hours with them. there was a notion that yes, we need to do the deals because it is in america s national interest but we had no illusion about who the soviets were. president trump should study the history before the next summit. the washington post out with a story, quote, after arriving in singapore on sunday
it also says comey, quote, made a serious error of judgment when he sent a letter to congress reopening the investigation of clinton s e-mails just days before the presidential election. but despite those findings, it also noted, quote, we found no evidence that comey s public statement announcing the fbi s decision to close the investigation was a result of bias or an effort to influence the election. the report also reveals new text messages from two of the fbi agents involved in the investigation. you perhaps have heard their story before. lisa page, peter strzok, who have been targets of trump and his supporters as they have sought to discredit federal law enforcement. one exchange between these two shows, quote, page asked strzok, trump s never, ever going to become president, right? right? today s report reveals, quote, strzok replied, no, no, he won t. we ll stop it. the report notes that message casts a cloud over the fbi but also stresses this.