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Guest Blog. The Donald J. Trump Foundation: Why Should We Care?

One of the collateral effects of the focus on Donald Trump’s treatment of women has been to distract attention from several other problematic aspects of his candidacy, including the Trump Foundation. Shortly before the disclosure of the 2005 Trump video tape, we had asked a friend of long standing, Suzanne Garment, to write a guest blog on the subject of the Trump Foundation, a subject that we believe deserves renewed consideration. (The Clinton Foundation has raised serious issues, but rather different ones, which we hope to address in a separate blog).

Suzanne Garment is a tax lawyer who has specialized in foundation work in recent years. She is also the author of Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics, and for several years wrote a weekly column, “Capitol Chronicle” in the Wall Street Journal.

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Blog No. 95. Donald and his Enablers in the Media.

The terrorist attack in Brussels commands the attention of us all, and we will comment on its significance in the next few days. In the meantime, the presidential race in the United States moves relentlessly on with no timeout for crisis or tragedy. We have already written more about Donald Trump than we ever expected or wanted to. Yet there is no other issue that is more important to the country than the destructive path down which the Pied Piper of Demagoguery seeks to lead us. And only now is the mainstream media beginning to awaken to the fact that it has played an important role in his ascent. It is too late for them to take back the billions of dollars of print and air time given Trump, but perhaps it is not too late for journalists to begin acting like journalists.Read More »Blog No. 95. Donald and his Enablers in the Media.