You Lie,
Trump donated portions of p**********l salary to agencies, contrary to v***l claim
The claim: Trump's tax returns prove he never donated his salary
A Dec. 23, 2022, Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a profanity-laced tweet about former President Donald Trump's annual salary while in the White House.
"all you d------ screamed at me for four years that DoNaLd TrUmP dOnAtEs HiS SaLaRy, well guess f------ what: his tax returns prove he never did," reads the tweet.
The post generated over 10,000 likes in less than three weeks. Similar posts have amassed hundreds of interactions on Instagram.
Our rating: False
Tax experts told USA TODAY that Trump's tax returns show only the charitable contributions he reported – not whether he donated his own salary or where the contributions went. Multiple federal agencies told USA TODAY they received donations from part of Trump's salary.

Trump's returns show charitable contributions, not the source of money
The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump’s tax returns to the public on Dec. 30, 2022. The report includes more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife and over 3,000 pages of returns on Trump’s business entities, as USA TODAY reported.

On Dec. 15, 2022, the Joint Committee on Taxation also released a report detailing Trump's tax returns.
Trump reported nearly $2 million in charitable donations in 2017 and a little over $500,000 in charitable donations in both 2018 and 2019, according to his tax returns and the report. He didn't report any charitable contributions in 2020.

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There is no way to know from Trump’s tax returns whether the money he donated included his salary, as the post claims.
The tax returns show only how much was donated and claimed in charitable contributions, Jeffrey Hoopes, research director at the UNC Tax Center, told USA TODAY in an email.
“Since money is fungible, it is unknowable whether he donated his salary, or whether he donated any more than he otherwise would have had he not got the salary, etc,” Hoopes said. “I would not support the claim that we could know that from his tax returns.”
Daniel Shaviro, a tax policy expert at New York University, agreed the returns don't indicate where the contributions went.
Shaviro also told USA TODAY the returns don't confirm he made those contributions.
"He claimed sufficiently large charitable deductions in 2017-2019 ... but whether those deductions were actually made is not verified by the returns themselves," Shaviro said.
The Joint Committee on Taxation states in its report that it has inquired into whether Trump's cash contributions are "supported by required substantiation."

Trump did donate his salary
The Trump administration announced the donation of portions of Trump's salary to federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Park Service, and the Small Business Administration, according to White House briefings.
These agencies confirmed to USA TODAY that Trump donated part of his annual p**********l salary of $400,000.
Cynthia Hernandez, a spokesperson for the National Park Service, referred USA TODAY to a 2017 press release that states Trump donated over $78,000 from his salary to the agency to restore two projects at the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.
Christina Carr, a spokesperson for the Small Business Administration, confirmed that the agency received Trump's 2018 second-quarter salary detailed in the White House press briefing.
Trump donated $100,000 of his salary to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2017, Kamara Jones, the department's acting assistant secretary for public affairs, told USA TODAY in an email.
Jones also said Trump donated $100,000 of his salary to the department in 2018, $300,000 of his salary in 2019, and $100,000 of his salary in 2020.
Trump did not report any charitable contributions on his 2020 taxes. Hoopes said no one is legally required to report any donation on a tax return.
USA TODAY reached out to the social media user who shared the claim for comment.
AFP Fact Check also debunked the claim.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/02/fact-check-partly-false-claim-trump-tax-returns-salary-donation/11132712002/

Thank God most of the rinos have fled, retired or were v**ed out of the GOP. Now if only you chumps were smart enough to v**e out your Marxists we might actually be able to have both parties resume a compromise. Until then, it's impossible. Ovommit had 8 years to build the wall and refused, Slo joe has had almost 4 years to stop the i******s that he has invited into our country and refuses to stop the flow. The i******s are even wearing, "V**e for Bribem" on their free t-shirts that slo joe donated to them. That's 12 years of dem ineptness with nothing done on our southern border. How many illegal t-shirts do you have Perm??

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You obviously should be aware that if Biden would just stop his open border policy; if Biden would stop expanding our federal gov; if he would actually make major cuts, instead of adding $7 plus Trillion to our debt, we taxpayers could see a tremendous reduction in our taxes. But hey, it’s not Biden’s money ….. so enjoy your lack of liberties Biden continues to remove from us all. Continue losing your tax cut money, because the ‘not over $400k in taxes’ is another of Biden’s false promises.. enjoy your new much higher tax rates should v**ers be clueless and put Biden back in power.

"for instance... Was it the t***h, or just one more of the lie about it and do it anyway strategy that was used to steal the SS trust fund and run guns to South America? More and more of the lies by the right wing come home to roost."

FAST AND FURIOUS SCANDAL SHOULD BE ONE OF THE GREATEST SCANDALS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-Glenbeulah) today criticized the Obama administration’s response to Operation Fast and Furious in a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing focused on what is still not known about the scandal six years later.

Witnesses at the hearing included Josephine Terry and Robert Heyer, mother and cousin of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was k**led as a result of the operation, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent John Dodson.

Excerpts of Grothman’s remarks

“We really haven’t gotten into how this happened in the first place, or what the motive would be for the U.S. government to try to get United States automatic weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

“It’s very horrible what happened to Bryan Terry. And I would suppose, given the zeal with which they were pursuing this, there were an unknown amount of Mexican individuals who wound up being k**led as a result of the actions of the U.S. government. Do you think that’s accurate?

“Has the Obama administration, or anyone connected with that administration, apologized to the Mexican government for trying to get automatic weapons down to the Mexican drug cartels as far as you’re aware?

“Well, someone ought to apologize.

“What would be the motivation to try to get American automatic weapons in the hands of drug cartels? Why did some people in the American government think it was in our interest to make sure the Mexican drug cartels were armed to the teeth?

“Eric Holder was certainly not very helpful. We held him in contempt of Congress. Can you, in general, give us your opinion on the degree to which Eric Holder tried to help this investigation, and the degree to which he tried to stand in the way of finding out what’s really going on here?

“It appears he really didn’t want to get to the bottom of it. He was willing to cover it up.

“Did you see the Obama administration step up and do anything about this?

“It looks like after [Eric Holder] left public service, he was rewarded by working at Covington and Burling, a top-of-the-line, liberal-leaning law firm in Washington. Does that bother you when you see people like Special Agent Dodson – his career stalled because he cares about the people, and cares about the future of this country? But somebody who gets in the way of this investigation is rewarded by the left-leaning establishment here in town by getting a job with a big law firm.

“I just hope this committee and whoever the new committee chairman is does what they can to make sure this is written in the history books. Sometimes, they say the winners write the history books, and sometimes horrific things happen and they disappear and future generations will never know about it.

“To me, the Fast and Furious scandal should be one of the greatest scandals in American history, and I hope this committee does all it
can so that people in the future always know the name of Eric Holder and know how little was done by this administration after they participated, for wh**ever motivation, in trying to get automatic weapons into the hands of the drug cartel.

“I want to thank you, Mrs. Terry, for showing up. I’d like to thank you Special Agent Dodson. I know you’re not as financially well-off as you would be if you had kept your head down, but I’m sure your reward is greater because you’re on the side of the angels.”
Operation Fast and Furious was a plan implemented by the Obama administration in which guns were sold to Mexican cartels in hopes that the guns would later be tracked to high-ranking cartel members and assist in their capture.

Instead, many of the guns went missing, and several were found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexican-American border including at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The Oversight Committee originally held a hearing on Operation Fast and Furious in 2011, which forced out the ATF chain of command and caused the Justice Department to issue new policies prohibiting gun-walking.
The ATF and the Justice Department obstructed Congress throughout this investigation.
Six years later, Congress is still seeking documents related to the Justice Department’s response to the Congressional investigation.
https://grothman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=333