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Hillary Clinton's Campaign Creates Way To Make Money From Donald Trump's Tweets (adweek.com)

Hillary Clinton's campaign has created a new fundraising tool called Troll Trump that lets supporters sign up to automatically donate money to the campaign when Donald Trump tweets. Adweek reports: The tool's landing page populates a new Trump tweet each time the site is refreshed to offer a sampling of the candidate's social media style. "Show Donald that his unhinged rhetoric comes at a cost," according to the Clinton campaign's website. "Sign up to donate to Hillary's campaign every time Donald tweets!" The idea was apparently inspired by a tweet by Matt Bellassai, a former BuzzFeed editor and social media star, who made a joke on Twitter threatening to donate to the campaign every time Trump tweets. (When the tool went live, Teddy Goff, a digital strategist with the Clinton campaign, tweeted Bellassai a thank-you.)

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  1. Re:Unmeasurable results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whereas Trump has settled multiple lawsuits using charity money.

    http://people.com/crime/donald-trump-used-money-from-charity-to-settle-lawsuits-report/

    Although in more recent 7 years he hasn't used charity money at all for ANY donations, instead just using it for his own expenses:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html

    You do realize that he's committed *actual* criminal offenses don't you? Perhaps you should avoid mentioning charities, that's a big minefield for your guy Trump.

  2. Re: OMG that's a dodgy check by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do understand that the Clinton foundation proves only a small percentage to an actual charity. The bulk of every dollar is overhead

    That's based on a misreading of the Foundation's tax forms.

    TL;DR: The foundation does provide only a small percentage of its donations in the form of grants. But that does not mean that the rest goes to overhead. The overwhelming majority of its funds are spent directly on programs and services that benefit the intended recipients. Only 10 to 20 percent is spent on fundraising and other overhead. That puts it on par with the best charities out there.

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  3. Re:OMG that's a dodgy check by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that the Saudis have given tons of money to the Clintons too, right?

    And many millions of those donations weren't even for helping children in Africa, they were for letting the Clintons build a monument to themselves, the Clinton Presidential Library, which makes it even worse.

    Yes, the Saudis gave about $10 million for the Clinton Presidential Library. But they gave the same amount for George H. W. Bush's library.

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  4. Re:Unmeasurable results by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Is it interesting that the Clinton Foundation has no measurable results?"

    Wot? Not even bought a giant portrait of Hillary, like the Donald did with his illegal 'charity'?

  5. Fact check by XXongo · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do understand that the Clinton foundation proves only a small percentage to an actual charity.

    Politifact rates that statement: false.
    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/25/reince-priebus/reince-priebus-false-claim-80-clinton-foundation-c/
    http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/

  6. Re:Unmeasurable results by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, people who know about how charities work seem impressed by it, and it doesn't "lobby" for good causes, it provides grants for them.

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  7. Re: OMG that's a dodgy check by ZipK · · Score: 2, Informative

    You do understand that the Clinton foundation proves only a small percentage to an actual charity. The bulk of every dollar is overhead

    Where "small percentage" is 86.9%?