9-Year-Old Child Sends Trump $3: ‘How’s He Gonna Eat Or Drink?’

Oh, goddammit.

Ok, remember how we detailed the extent to which Donald Trump is duping low income Americans into donating to his “cause”?

That would be a “cause” that ostensibly involves restoring some lost American “greatness” by enacting policies designed to benefit people who definitely aren’t billionaires, but which, in reality, involves things like tax cuts that save people like Trump billions.

It would be bad enough if he were just taking people’s money to push an agenda that actually doesn’t benefit those people, but the whole thing is made even more egregious when you find out that some of that money is being diverted to his legal bills incurred in connection to the Russia probe. Here’s a little refresher for you from a previous post:

Of course small donors have no conception of where their money is going.

One of these small donors is Martha Adams 70, a retired speech pathologist from Austin, who told the Post that when she donated to the joint committee, she intended for her money to go to the president. “I tried to give just to him, because I think he knows best what to do,” she said. “I don’t know if I really meant to give it to the RNC.”

Right. Same thing for Gwynne Abrams, an unemployed nanny in Henderson, Nev., who gave $78 to the joint committee. “I’m not giving to the Republican Party, really,” she said, and her rationale is simple: “[the GOP has] done nothing since they’ve been in control of the Senate and House.”

But see that’s the thing: she is giving to the Republican Party — “really“.

As the Post reminds you, “the national party gets a cut of donations flowing to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee that primarily benefits Trump’s reelection campaign but currently gives a quarter of its proceeds to the RNC.”

How would small donors know that? Well, here’s how:

• The joint committee notes its RNC affiliation at the bottom of donor emails.

So: don’t read the fine print.

Here’s something else the “unemployed nannies” and “retired speech pathologists” giving away $78 dollars at a time might not know:

• The committee recently confirmed it is helping pay for the legal fees Trump has incurred because of the Russia investigations.

Now we know that sounds absolutely horrible, but don’t worry because according to the committee, “those costs are being covered by a legal account financed by wealthy donors, not small contributions.”

“Believe me.”

So just to be clear: small donors like Gwynne and Martha are being duped into giving money to the RNC which, as Noam Chomsky explains, is hard at work trying to screw the Gwynnes and Marthas of the world (the only saving grace being that Republicans are so inept at getting anything done that their platform is stymied).

Not only that, some of the money being sent in by small donors is being used to finance Trump’s lawyer fees — even as they swear there’s some kind of Chinese wall (there are so many ironies in using that descriptor it would be difficult to list them all) between money from “wealthy” donors and small donors, with contributions from the latter not being used to help Trump defend himself against charges of collusion. Again: “believe me.”

This would be bad enough if Trump actually were fighting for the interests of these small donors. That is, given that Trump and his family almost unquestionably colluded with The Kremlin to win the election, it would still be egregious for him to be financing his defense using nanny fees from Gwynne. But he’s not fighting for Gwynne and Martha. In fact, he’s pushing a tax reform agenda that quite clearly benefits the wealthy and based on all the evidence available (which admittedly isn’t complete because he won’t release his most recent tax returns for fear of what they would show about Russia), would benefit him to the tune of $1.1 billion. That’s a lot of nannying.

Well if you thought that was bad, read this, out this morning from Fox News (who else, right?):

A boy in Tennessee received an unexpected surprise after a stranger learned of his donation to President Trump.

Shortly after Inauguration Day, Eli’sha Davies, 9, learned that the president was taking a big salary cut in his new job. So he decided to send him $3 to help him pay his bills, WGRZreported.

The story gained attention after Trump wrote him back this week, reportedly sending a letter, a picture, and the $3, urging Davies to put it towards bettering his community.

But Davies’ mother told reporters that the money was actually meant to go towards a new mandolin the boy had been saving for, WGRZ reported. But he was having trouble because he kept finding people he thought needed the money more than he did, like the president.

The Young Musicians Education Foundation Inc. is a local charity that helps kids get access to instruments who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford them, WGRZ reported.

When John Wildeman, the president of the Foundation, heard about Davies’ story, he decided that he wanted to help out, so he gifted him the mandolin he wanted.

“$3 is a lot of money to a little kid, most kids,” Wildeman said. “For him to sacrifice that and send that money to someone who he thought really needed it, that meant an awful lot to me.”

“I’m like a kid at Christmas when I know we’re giving a child an instrument like this,” Wildeman said. “It’s just a thrill for me to be able to do it.”

I mean, good for John and “The Young Musicians Education Foundation,” but this is less a “feel good” story and more a testament to the idea that Trump has managed to make everyone from unemployed nannies all the way down to mandolin-less children believe that their couch-cushion money would be better off with Trump.

Here’s Fox:

9-year-old sends Trump $3 and gets a letter back | https://t.co/JGQzLoJihT

— Heisenberg Report (@heisenbergrpt) October 24, 2017

Yea, “how’s he gonna eat or drink?” Well Eli’sha, it turns out that very much unlike you, Ivanka never had to save up $3 for a mandolin, because had she wanted one, her dad would have just bought the whole goddamn mandolin factory.

And before you go saying this is an unfair characterization, don’t you think for a second that this child wasn’t prompted to do this by something he heard Trump say about how grateful we should all be that he’s not taking a salary to be President and indeed, it sounds like (from the video) that his parents were the ones that told him about it.