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July 18, 2017

This is called "Bitch-Slapped"

Eric Trump picked a fight with Olbermann on Twitter. Guess who won

By Mike Moffitt

A tweet from Keith Olbermann about Eric Trump's charity triggered an testy Twitter exchange with the president's younger son.

Eric Trump was ticked off when the political commentator responded to the following tweet by White House adviser Kellyanne Conway about the current controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr. Conway was responding to a tweet that appeared to allude to alleged favor peddling by the Clinton Foundation.

Kellyanne Conway
TWIT:
"That would be something."
"Especially if some of those countries repress girls & women. "

Addressing Conway on Saturday, Olbermann wrote: "I understand your confusion. You're thinking of @EricTrump self-dealing charity cash to himself from golf tournaments."

That did not sit well with Eric Trump. He tweeted at Olbermann:

TWIT:
"You mean the $16.3 million dollars I have raised for dying children (before the age of 33) at a 12% expense ratio. What good have you done? "

Olbermann eagerly picked up the gauntlet Sunday morning. He fired off a flurry of tweeted critical of Trump's charity expenses.

Keith Olbermann
"So 12% is what you skimmed/self-dealt back to Trump Org, Sonny? The $1m+ I've donated to St Jude's, Make-A-Wish etc came out of my pocket.."

Keith Olbermann
"Remind everybody again which one of us was taking $1.2m in charity as "payment" for a family golf course? "

Keith Olbermann
"Charity is when you see people with less or in need, and you give them some of yours, Sonny. It's not "a 12% expense ratio" (i.e. "profit")"

Keith Olbermann
"Lastly, Kid when we put you, your disloyal bro @DonaldJTrumpJr and treasonous @realDonaldTrump in prison we will all have done GREAT good "

Trump had no comeback. Instead, he blocked Olbermann.

The Eric Trump Foundation apparently paid President Donald Trump's businesses $1.2 million between 2007 and 2015 for expenses related to the foundation's annual charity event at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, according to a Forbes report published last month.

According to Forbes, the Trump National Golf Club charged the Eric Trump Foundation tens — and later hundreds — of thousands of dollars each year for the one-day event, while donors were led to believe that a much bigger portion of their money would go directly to the fundraiser's chosen cause, children's cancer research.

As reported by Forbes, the first four yearly tournaments, from 2007 to 2011, cost about $50,000 each. But in 2011, the costs jumped from $46,000 to $142,000. After dropping to $59,000 in 2012, the costs again rose to $230,000 in 2013, $242,000 in 2014, and $322,000 in 2015. According to golf tournament experts and former employees of Trump's golf club, there is no way to explain how costs could have amounted to $322,000.

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