Charity misuse: Trump told to pay $2mn
NEW YORK: A New York judge on Thursday ordered US President Donald Trump to pay $2 million for using his former charity to further his political and business interests, adding to his legal woes.
Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York Supreme Court told him to pay the damages to a group of non-profit organisations to settle a civil lawsuit brought by state attorney general Letitia James, a Democrat.
James filed the lawsuit against the Trump Foundation in June last year, accusing it of
“persistently illegal conduct” that included improper coordination between the charity and his campaign team during his 2016 White House bid.
The suit accused Trump of using foundation funds to settle lawsuits, promote his Trump-branded hotels, and for personal spending. It also said that in early 2016 while Trump was running for president, he organised what was billed as a Trump Foundation fund-raiser but was actually a campaign event.
BOOK CALLS TRUMP ‘INCOMPETENT’
WASHINGTON: A forthcoming book by an anonymous author identified only as “a senior official in the Trump administration” describes President Donald Trump as volatile, incompetent and unfit to be commander in chief, according to excerpts published on Thursday by The Washington Post.
The book describes racist and misogynist behind-the-scenes statements by Trump and says he “stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information.”
The Post acquired a copy of the book, A Warning, which is due out November 19 and first reported on its contents ob Thursday.