toomuchtime_
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A huge difference for those who are able to understand it.Trump's sons are directors of the Opening Day Foundation but are listed only as honorary directors of the Opening Day Event, suggesting that they are active as directors of the Foundation but not as directors of the Event.ButRemember when Trump was screaming at the top of his lungs during the campaign about how the Clinton Foundation had sold access to Hillary while she was SoS? He said it was pay for play and cronyism.
Now................Trump's sons are doing the same thing. They are now saying that if you donate 1 MILLION dollars to their charity "Cufflinks and Camoflage", you not only get a private meeting with Trump after he's sworn in for you and 15 of your friends, you also get a hunting trip with him or his sons and some other bennies.
Now...............donating to a made up "conservation charity", just so that you can get access to the president, well............that's kinda the same thing that Trump accused Hillary of when he said she was doing pay for play with her office as SoS.
Isn't selling access to the presidency even worse?
Trump's Sons Offer Inauguration Access for $1 Million
"Walter Kinzie, the chief executive of Texas event management company encore live, told Public Integrity that a nonprofit called the Opening Day Foundation hired it to run the event. But he told the outlet that the document TMZ acquired is not entirely accurate and that the Trump family members are not definitely participating."
Trump's sons reportedly involved in charity event offering access to president-elect
But,
https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/BL-WB-67053?responsive=y?client=ms-android-verizon
"The filing with the Texas secretary of state shows the Trumps were registered as directors for the nonprofit on Dec. 14. The registered agent for the group is Gentry Beach, a longtime friend of Donald Jr. whom the president-elect last month appointed to his inaugural committee."
Celebrities do sometimes auction off their time to raise money for charities and Trump was a legitimate celebrity long before he ran for President, but I agree, if the story is true, that it would be in poor tasted to do it now that he is President-Elect, still it is bizarre to compare this to Clinton's secretive private meetings with donors to the Clinton Foundation when she was Secretary of State and her lies when it was pointed out to her the disproportionate amount of time she spent with them.
If Clinton had announced publicly that she would have a private lunch of dinner or even go hunting with anyone who donated $1,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation, some people would have complained about it but it would never have become a major political issue: it's always the attempted cover up that gets her into trouble, with pay to play, her private server and even refusing to to turn over relatively innocuous White Water documents to a Congressional committee that gave rise to the call for a special prosecutor and ended up getting Bill impeached.
A distinction without a difference.