Trump’s donations to LGBT groups were part of reality TV show, not private philanthropy
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Donald
Trump donated tens of thousands of dollars to homosexual lobbying organizations
– but the donations were dictated by the terms of his reality TV show
"Celebrity Apprentice."
LifeSiteNews broke the story that the the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $30,000 to two LGBT
groups, including a national
organization dedicated to teaching homosexuality in the public schools
beginning kindergarten and promoting "fisting" to children in middle
school.
The
foundation donated $20,000 to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
(GLSEN) and another $10,000 to Gay Men's Health Crisis according to a 990 form
filed with the IRS in 2012.
However,
those donations came as part of Trump's role in his reality television show,
which allowed celebrities to earmark money for charities of their choice, and
Trump would make a matching donation.
"In
2012, we did receive money from the Trump Foundation," GLSEN spokeswoman
Kari Hudnell told the homosexual publication The
Advocate. "It was all in relation to Aubrey O'Day appearing on
'Celebrity Apprentice.' She was playing to benefit GLSEN."
A
spokesperson for Gay Men's Health Crisis also told The Advocate that its Trump Foundation donation
came because comedienne Lisa Lampanelli "raised $130,000 on the show for
GMHC, with a $10,000 match from Trump, a routine part of the show during its
respective seasons."
GMHC
has come under scrutiny for its annual summer fundraiser, the Fire Island
Morning After Party, where dozens of people are cited by
police each year for drug sale or possession, and people have been evacuated
after falling into drug-induced comas on the premises.
Gregory
T. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT Republican group,
said the circumstances of the donations don't change the fact that it was made.
"The
check said Trump Foundation. You can't really spin your way out of that,"
he said. "I don't think Trump can say that he didn't give to those
organizations."
He
similarly critiqued LGBT organizations that tried to minimize Trump's role in
donating to their cause. "It's a little disingenuous for those
organizations, who gladly accepted money from the Trump Foundation, to try to
distance themselves from those donations," Angelo said.
The
Log Cabin Republicans has asked Trump to clarify his stance on same-sex
"marriage," although
Trump has consistently said he opposes redefining marriagesince he considered running for the Reform Party
presidential nomination in 1999.
More
recently, Trump has promised to appoint Supreme Court justices similar to
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who will vote to overturn last
summer's Obergefell
v. Hodges decision,
which imposed same-sex "marriage" on all 50 states.
The
Donald J. Trump Foundation did not respond to LifeSiteNews' requests for
comment before the original story was published.
