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New web ad: Trump’s real life pay-to-play scandal

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hillary clintonHillary for America is launching a new web ad that explains how Donald Trump used his charitable foundation to make an illegal political contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

That donation is part of a pattern of pay-to-play behavior Trump has exhibited throughout this life, which he has bragged about repeatedly.

For a lesson in what real life pay-to-play looks like, we need look no further than Trump’s history with Attorney General Bondi. Here’s what we know on the scandal: Bondi declined to investigate Trump University — Donald Trump’s get-rich-quick scheme that bilked more than 5,000 students out of $40 million — after soliciting a $25,000 donation from Donald Trump. Then, Trump held a fundraiser for Bondi.

But that’s not all. Last week, Yahoo published a bombshell report revealing that Trump’s charitable foundation gave $100,000 to a conservative activist organization that sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, potentially retribution for taking legal action against Trump University. And this weekend, the Washington Post published a devastating exposé on the Trump Foundation highlighting how, among other things, Trump used $20,000 of his charity’s fund to purchase a 6-foot tall painting of himself.

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