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4:11Now PlayingMelania Trump sent out a statement on Friday claiming that she was being "cancelled" because another school has rejected donations from her charitable groups. This isn't the first time it has happened, and it likely won't be the last, as the former First Lady comes under increasing scrutiny for her "charitable" activities that don't appear to be benefiting anyone. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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Recently a school in Oklahoma rejected, rejected a charitable donation from one of Melania Trump's charities, which is an extension of her be best campaign it's fostering. The future is the name of this one. She went to this school in Oklahoma, which is a basically extension of a Silicon valley school, a technology school and said, I want to, I wanna give you, I guess, money. I think that's what it is. Maybe old computer equipment. I've seen conflicting reports on what exactly she wanted to donate to them, but the school told her, yeah, we're good. We're gonna, we're gonna not accept your donation. We appreciate it. But we're just really not interested in this. And for the record, there's actually the second school in recent years that has turned down a donation from Melania Trump's groups couple ago, she tried to donate a bunch of Dr. Seuss books to, I think it was an elementary school.
And they said, yeah. Um, first of all, we we've we've, we've got these, you know, thank you. But you we're pretty well stocked on Dr. Seuss, not to mention, I mean, isn't this a little cliche. It's actually what the librarian said, like giving us Dr. Seuss books. Isn't that little cliche, you know, we, we want more advanced, you know, this is great for pre-K type stuff. You know, if you want to go donated to like three and four year olds, it'd be great, but come on. So they didn't accept her donation and this school in Oklahoma didn't. And so of course, Melania Trump does what every other member of the Trump family does in a situation like this. And she WHS about being canceled. She issued a statement late last week that said this, those who attack my initiatives and create the appearance of impropriety are quite literally dream killers. They have canceled the hopes and dreams of children by trying to cancel me.
Yeah, isn't there kind of like a, a little low key investigation taking place with one of your charitable events. That's coming up in April here in the state of Florida. I mean, nobody's trying to cancel you, but maybe part of it has to do with the fact that you have created an event that said, as it's going to give some of the proceeds, cuz you're I guess, auctioning off or raffling off whatever it is, tea with the former first lady. So you're raising a bunch of money for that. And you said, it's gonna go to this specific charity that as far as we can tell here in the state of Florida doesn't actually exist. So you're raising money for a thing that no, including those who work for our Republican controlled government here in the state of Florida, nobody can verify that it even exists. So you're gonna have to forgive these other organizations who don't want to be associated with that.
I mean, on the surface, this all looks not saying it is, but I'm saying it looks like a big giant scam, kinda like your NFT thing that you did recently and you auctioned off a bunch of NFTs, but then it turns out that the group that actually created them is the one who won the auction. So the people who made them got 'em back somehow. Yeah. I don't think any school wants to be associated with that because again, not saying it is, but I'm saying that everything, this woman is doing ever since leaving office sure. As hell looks like one big giant scam after another. So forgive the schools for not wanting to be a part of that and know that's not cancel culture, that's them protecting themselves so that they don't end up under investigation as well.
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