A fundraiser held by the “charitable organization” Border911, which is Trump-backed and Trump-supporting, just may have run afoul of the law.

Led by Tom Homan, Trump’s former head of ICE — the Border Patrol, but meaner — the organization held a fundraiser on April 4th that Trump was in attendance for.

But IRS rules say that “charitable organizations” may not endorse or explicitly support candidates during elections.

If a single penny of the money raised goes to Donald Trump, which is very likely, all parties involved could be in serious trouble.

The event was obviously a benefit for Trump, as evidences by the attendees; his former GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy who has endorsed him since he dropped out of the primary, and Matt Whitaker, Trump’s former chief of staff at the DOJ, were both there.

Coupled with Trump’s constant “build the wall” drumbeat and the fact that this particular charity campaigns exclusively against immigrants, it’s almost a done deal that this is a violation of the IRS rule.

The 501(c)(3) exemption from the IRS for charities like this (Border 911 just got theirs in August of last year) is a hard and fast rule.

During their events, they don’t explicitly say anything close to “vote for Trump.” But Trump is linked to the organization, they clearly support his efforts, and they clearly share his politics and try to appeal to people who aren’t already Trump voters to become one.

The language from the IRS is more formal, saying that charities “are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.”

But we all know what they mean.

You can’t raise money for charity and then give it to a candidate.

This isn’t an incarcerable offense or anything. Nobody’s going to prison. But the “nonprofit” may lost it’s tax exempt status over it, and Trump himself may be forced to pay taxes on any “benefits” that arose directly for him.

Heck, even the donors to the fundraiser might be without the standard deduction one would normally get for a “charitable contribution.”

But honestly, this is pretty much the standard for anyone and anything connected to Trump. There’s a reason that, before he’s even been involved in one of his criminal trials, he’s already been fined nearly half a billion dollars for fraud, slander, and rape.

You can read more about the thought process that he may be in violation of the law:

The Supreme Court held in Better Business Bureau Of Washington, D. C., Inc. v. United States, that the presence of a private benefit to any entity other than the recognized beneficiaries of the tax exempt organization’s exempted activities, if substantial in nature, will destroy… https://t.co/lugnuN8GrE

— Eric Lisann (@EricLisann) April 8, 2024