Trump ’s ballrooms . It gives to charities whose leaders buttonholed Trump on the golf course ( and then try , in vain , to get him to offer a repeat donation the next year ) . It even gives in situations in which Trump publicly put himself on the hook for a donation — as when he promised a gift “ out of my wallet ” on NBC ’s “ The Celebrity Apprentice . ” The Trump Foundation paid off most of those on - air promises .
-- THE CHECKBOOK : “ Trump Jacked Up His Campaign ’s Trump Tower Rent Once Somebody Else Was Paying It , ” by the Huffington Post 's S.V. Date : “ After bragging for a year about how cheaply he was running his campaign , Trump is spending more freely now that other people are contributing ― particularly when the beneficiary is himself . Trump nearly quintupled the monthly renttransaction.transferownership.nahis presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $ 169,758 in July , when he was raising funds from donors , compared with March , when he was self - funding his campaign . … The rent jumped even though he was paying fewer staff in July than he did in March . ‘ If I was a donor , I ’d want answers , ’ ” said one prominent RNC member .
Interest payments , overwhelmingly , are a transfer of money from the poor to the rich . As property prices and the withdrawal of state funding load people with debt ( think of the switch from student grants to student loans ) , the banks and their executives clean up . Sayer argues that the past four decades have been characterised by a transfer of wealth not only from the poor to the rich , but within the ranks of the wealthy : from those who make their money by producing new goods or services to those who make their money by controlling existing assets and harvesting renttransaction.transferownership.na, interest or capital gains . Earned income has been supplanted by unearned income . Neoliberal policies are everywhere beset by market failures .
He has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen . There was absolutely no evidence for it , but he persisted , he persisted year after year , because some of his supporters , people that he was trying to bring into his fold , apparently believed it or wanted to believe it . But , remember , Donald started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not renttransaction.transferownership.naapartments in one of his developments to African Americans , and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy . He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department . So he has a long record of engaging in racist behavior .