Late last week, The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump paid a $2,500 penalty to the Internal Revenue Service this year for an improper $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to a campaign group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R), who had solicited a contribution from Trump while her office was deciding whether to join a fraud lawsuit against Trump University. Trump Organization controller and senior vice president Jeffrey McConney told The Washington Post's David A. Fahrenthold that the check from the foundation "was just an honest mistake," and that "it wasn't done intentionally to hide a political donation, it was just an error."
Hillary Clinton's campaign took the occasion to pound Trump, with spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri noting Trump's criticism of the Clinton Foundation. "Donald Trump has no standing whatsoever to question the Clinton Foundation, which works to make AIDS and malaria drugs more accessible, when it's been proven he uses his own foundation to launder illegal campaign donations," she said, adding that "it appears the payment may have been intended to stave off an investigation into the sham Trump University that has ripped off unsuspecting students."
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