Behold the hideous 6-foot portrait Trump bought with charity money

Awesome Painting of Donald Trump Was Totally Worth All the Charity Money He Spent on It

 Isn't it interesting and appropriate that the artist painted this  work of fart in shades of orange

In 2007, Donald Trump bought a six foot-tall portrait of himself at a fundraiser auction, and paid with $20,000 from his namesake charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
Now, at last, we can see what he got for his money. On Tuesday, artist Michael Israel -- the "speed painter" who painted the portrait of Trump -- released the first public photos of the portrait. Israel painted the piece in just five or six frenetic minutes, during a charity gala at Trump's own Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
Afterward, Israel auctioned the portrait off. Trump's wife Melania won the auction, with a bid of $10,000. Then the auctioneer convinced her to double it. Half of the proceeds went to Israel, the painter, and half went to the charity that hosted the event, then called the Children's Place at Home Safe.  The charity is now called HomeSafe. It helps children and families harmed by domestic violence.

 
Michael Israel Speed painter Michael Israel, white shirt, poses at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida in front of a painting he made of Trump. Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity — the Donald J Trump Foundation to buy a six foot portrait of himself 

When a check came, however, it wasn't Trump or his wife who actually paid for the painting. Instead, it was Trump's charity -- which, even by that time, was largely filled with money from other donors, and not from Trump himself.
It's a fact:
1)Trump hasn’t donated for years to his own charitable foundation and 2) routinely uses his charity’s money to settle his debts, make self-serving political contributions, and buy things for his own use.
Tax experts say that if Trump hung the painting up at one of his homes or businesses, he may have violated laws against "self-dealing." Those laws prohibit charity leaders from using money from their nonprofits to buy things for themselves, or for their businesses.  Surprise!! Mr Trump will not reveal where the painting is.
In recent weeks, The Washington Post has reported other instances in which Trump may have violated those rules. He used $258,000 from the foundation to pay off legal settlements that involved his for-profit businesses. He spent $12,000 from the charity's coffers to buy a football helmet signed by then-Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.
And he spent $10,000 to buy another portrait of himself in 2014. In that case, Trump paid $10,000 for the portrait. It was later found hanging on the wall of a sports bar at Trump's Doral golf resort. A spokesman for Trump, Boris Epshteyn, said later that Trump's business was actually just "storing" the portrait, on the charity's behalf. Tax experts said that does not cut it.

 Michael Israel Speed painter Michael Israel, left, poses with Donald and Melania Trump in 2007 at the event where Trump bought the portrait. 

 
Even sight unseen, the $20,000 portrait has been seized on by Democrats as evidence that Trump was misusing his charity's money.
In September, shortly after The Post first described the $20,000 portrait, President Obama mocked the purchase during a campaign stop.
“You want to debate foundations and charities?” Obama said, comparing the Trump Foundation to the Clinton Foundation, associated with Democrat Hillary Clinton and her family. “One candidate’s family foundation has saved countless lives around the world. The other candidate’s foundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself.”
Clinton herself used a similar line of attack in the third and final presidential debate.
"I'd be happy to compare what we do with the Trump Foundation, which took money from other people and bought a six- foot portrait of Donald," Clinton said. "I mean, who does that? It just was astonishing."
The photos that Israel provided  Tuesday were taken at the 2007 event itself. They do not reveal where the portrait is now. Trump's campaign spokespeople have declined to answer questions about its current whereabouts, or if Trump found a charitable use for it.
But in September, a former assistant to Israel provided a clue. Jody Young, the painter’s former manager, said that after the auction, he was told by Melania Trump to ship the painting to Trump's golf club in Westchester County, N.Y.
Her plan was “to hang it in either the boardroom or the conference room of the club,” Young said. Isn't that charitable of her?
Mr Trump has a lot to answer for. He's a thief, crook, liar, tax dodger, racist, woman hater, possible rapist and Putin lover. He would make a perfect president for America and apparently a lot of Americans agree with me.