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@CREWcrew
Nov 22 • 16 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Let’s talk about Donald Trump and his new Attorney General pick Pam Bondi, because boy do we have a story to tell
From February 2008-May 2011, the Florida Attorney General’s office received at least 22 complaints regarding Trump University, the Trump Institute, and related entities
Jump ahead to 2013, the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Trump University  for “engaging in persistent fraudulent, illegal and deceptive conduct,” and then-Florida Attorney General Bondi’s office told multiple publications they were reviewing the suit and considering joining
A couple days later, the Donald J. Trump Foundation makes a $25,000 contribution to And Justice for All, a political group backing Bondi. The donation, illegal for a 501(c)(3) private foundation to give, was personally solicited by Bondi from Trump.
Despite previously acknowledging the 22 complaints to reporters, internal emails show that between October 17-18, 2013, Bondi’s employees weeded out any complaint about Trump Institute and related entities to claim there was only one complaint against Trump University.
In its 2013 taxes, the Trump Foundation claims it made no donations to political entities and replaces And Justice for All with a different, similarly named group in Kansas to which they would legally be allowed to donate.
We filed a complaint. Because this is clearly illegal. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
Trump representatives admitted to the illegal donation, blaming an increasing series of clerical errors. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
We then filed complaints against Bondi with the Inspector General for Florida’s Office of the Attorney General and the state’s Commission on Ethics for potentially violating the law citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…
We then filed a series of IRS complaints against Trump and the Trump Foundation citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
And another citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
Following CREW’s discovery that the Trump Foundation did not file an updated 990 tax form, the Washington Post discovered a $2,500 IRS penalty paid by the Foundation for the illegal donation, kicking off one of the biggest stories of the year.
washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…
We then filed criminal bribery complaints against Trump and Bondi with the Department of Justice and called for a criminal investigation into whether the Trump Foundation broke federal criminal law by making numerous false reports to the IRS on its tax forms.
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
Following CREW’s investigation, Trump announces he’s closing the Trump Foundation citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
And now Bondi gets her reward: the top law enforcement job in the country. The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to thoroughly investigate the Trump-Bondi scandal.
And if you want all the Trump-Bondi lore in one place: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

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But the agency’s failures go back years. Here’s why:
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