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Will close. quote, the trump foundation has done great work and given away lots of money, both mine and others, with me taking no fees, rent, salary, et cetera, but the new york attorney general said the foundation acted more like a checkbook for trumps campaign. david k. johnson is the founder of d.c. report.org and the author of the making of donald trump. thank you so much for being here, sir, really appreciate it. the new york state attorney general wrote in this, quote, our petition detaile...

Cooperation with the trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing and much more. this amounted to the trump foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve mr. trumps business and political interests. our next guest, shaken gold macker of "the new york times" reports even though the foundation is closing, quote, the broader lawsuit, which also seeks millions in restitution and penalties and a bar on president trump and his three oldest children from serving on t...

Any foundation youve heard of thats dedicated towards, i dont know, curing cancer in kids or preserving wildlife. it didnt have a very strong purpose. the people on the board were closely related to each other and didnt have expertise in the areas they wanted to make a difference in. and then there was a self-dealing. you picked some great examples with the painting he bought at a charity auction and installed in one of his hotels. the lawsuits that he settled on behalf of his properties he had ...

Barbara underwood announced the foundation would be dissolving as her office pursues a lawsuit against the charity. in a statement underwood said the trump foundation exhibited a shocking pattern of illegality including unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing and much more. underwood added that the trump foundation functioned as little more than a checkbook to serve mr. trumps business and political interests. >> you know, weve been reading t...

Have a veterans fundraiser and he handed out a jumbo check that said "make america great again" on the bottom. >> there it is. >> the new york attorney general says this was an illegal campaign donation. remind you of anything else thats in the news lately? >> right. >> its a lot like the storeny daniels and -- >> right. >> and the other womans name. >> karen mcdougal. >> yes, excuse me. while the stakes are not as high, were kind of looking at the same pattern of activity. >> yeah, what you get...

Repeated willful self-dealing. the presidents foundation will be shut immediately, and its remaining assets will be distributed to charities approved by the office of the new york state attorney general in conjunction with the state judge. so that was the start of the day for the president. it should be noted that lawsuit continues dissolving the presidents foundation and distributing its assets, according to the wishes of a judge in the new york ag. that doesnt end the case against the presiden...

Finance. so is this going to go away? perhaps. but it may not end the other liabilities that could potentially affect the trump organization. that still seems to be in the cross hairs of investigators. so certainly, youre right, pam. this is not good for trump, for the president. theres a lot going on. >> and this is, there are 17 investigations that have arisen from the trump russia investigation. this is one of them. this is according to an article written on "wired." and it goes to show while...

Pattern of illegal self-dealing is the same pattern that were seeing in the charges with respect to the inaugural committee, for domestic donors, for the inaugural committee for foreign donors. for the emoluments lawsuit of self-dealing. we have a lot of cases against trump and his organization and his family that allege self-dealing. so i think the story here is that this is the first time that a government agency has essentially obtained the admission of the trump organization that it was inde...

Trump or his business. first off, it says trump bought a six-foot portrait of himself -- theres a photo of it -- at a charity auction using charity money. the lawsuit also says $100,000 of charity money was used to settle legal claims against trumps mar-a-lago resort in florida. similarly, the lawsuit also says another $158,000 of charity money was used to settle legal claims against the trump national golf club in 2008. this incident allegedly involved a hole-in-one tournament. let me also reid...

Presidents former national security adviser, michael flynn. now were learning the trump foundation has agreed to dissolve in this lawsuit. the president is likely watching all of this play out. this is not good news for him. >> certainly not. let me just quickly read a statement that the attorney general there put out in response to this. she said our petition detailed, these are the court records, detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the trump foundation, including unlawful coord...