Trump Foundation is Being Forced to Sell Its $12K Tim Tebow Helmet
Source - President Donald Trump is parting ways with Tim Tebow — or at least an autographed football helmet of the former Denver Broncos quarterback.
The President on Tuesday agreed to shut down his personal charity as the state attorney general of New York pursues allegations that Trump used the Donald J. Trump Foundation for his personal benefit over the last decade as well as illegally using it to boost his presidential campaign in 2016. …
The foundation owns three items: two large portraits of Trump and the Tebow football helmet. Trump bought the autographed helmet at a charity auction in 2012 for $12,000 and he made a big splash in the gossip columns posing with it. …
In all, the Trump foundation spent $42,000 total on one helmet and two portraits. He now values the three items at a combined $975, according to a recent Internal Revenue Service filing.
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I get the need for government oversight to police charities. I’m on the board of a charitable foundation and every penny has to be accounted for and minutes of the meetings kept and everything reported to the attorney general and that’s 100 percent legit. You don’t want people to donating to a charity only to have the people running the thing pocketing the proceeds. But we’re not talking about mere cash here. We are talking about a Tim Tebow Broncos helmet.
Does the NY AG’s office have any idea the value of that thing? It’s beyond measure. That’s not memorabilia; it’s an artifact. You might as well go after the Trump Foundation for investing in the Ark of the Covenant. That helmet is a telephone to God. It’s not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. That wasn’t just John Fox Tebow was hearing from through that headset. It was the Almighty. The Maker of Heaven and Earth. Of all things visible and invisible. The Bible speaks of the Tebow Helmet leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Helmet before it is invincible.
So is any charity. Yeah, you want to make sure that someone isn’t hiding behind some charitable foundation as a scam for their own benefit, I’m with you all the way. But the Tebow Helmet benefits us all and there’s no crime here. But government’s gonna do what the government does, I suppose. Hopefully they’ll pack it in a crate and store it in the back of a massive warehouse someplace, as Tebow and God would want.