Follow-up on Trump’s raising money for Vets: Weeks later, Veteran’s groups haven’t received a thing [Darleen Click]

Remember, all donations went to Trump’s own foundation … should we be surprised to learn that after all the hoopla that the money has stayed with Trump?

A Trump website set up a day before the rally to receive donations said as of Thursday nearly $1.7 million was raised online, which Mr. Trump said reached $6 million in total with other donations, but the campaign didn’t disclose how much was raised that night. The day after the event, his campaign promised to quickly send the cash to nearly two dozen groups and soon presented a handful of them oversize novelty checks for $100,000 from his foundation.

But those big checks can’t be cashed, and two weeks later some of the groups are just now beginning to get paid. […]

While one nonprofit said it received a check immediately after the event, most of the groups said they hadn’t heard from the Trump foundation about payment for weeks, which a philanthropy expert described as uncommon.

Some of the groups this week received checks, at least one of which appeared to have been sent after questions to the Trump campaign from The Wall Street Journal about the pending payments.

In an interview Wednesday, Mr. Trump said “a lot of the money was sent” already and criticisms are unfounded because he had no obligation to raise the funds. “Out of the goodness of my heart, I raised millions of dollars for the vets,” he said.

Um, until those dollars are passed on, they are Trump’s and his alone. A nice pool of liquid funds.

The Donald seems to have a lot in common with his dear friend.