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Trump Family Foundation ordered by Court to pay $2,00,000 for theft of donations and ENTIRE family (Ivanka, Eric, Donald, Jr) banned for life from ever participating in a non-profit.
A slimly partial truth but mostly untrue. Trump settled the case and agreed to pay two mil into the Foundation which then gave that amount and its remaining assets to several charities. The Trump children agreed to undergo training. They have not been banned from ever participating in a non-profit. There was no admission, or finding, of "theft of donations".
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In November 2019, the New York Supreme Court ordered Trump to pay $2 million in damages for the waste incurred when his 2016 presidential campaign orchestrated and benefited from the distribution of funds to veterans groups, which had been donated by the public.
What's False. However, neither Trump, nor his children Ivanka and Eric, nor his foundation, were found to have "stolen" or kept any of the donations, and so none of them "admitted to" any such actions. The New York Supreme Court explicitly acknowledged that all the funds raised for veterans groups had ultimately reached veterans groups.
Trump did not "steal" charitable donations intended for veterans, nor did he admit as much in court. All the donations intended for veterans charities ended up going to veterans charities. However, Trump's 2016 presidential campaign did direct and benefit from the manner in which many of those donations were distributed to the charities.
The New York Attorney General's office objected to the way in which the Trump Foundation had been used to advance the interests of the Trump campaign, and especially the way in which the campaign dictated how more than half of the funds were to be distributed, with Trump at times personally handing out checks at campaign rallies. The Attorney General's Office did not object on the grounds that Trump, his children, or his foundation, had stolen or kept the money.
The judge concluded as follows.
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As stated above, I find that the $2,823,000 raised at the Fundraiser was used for Mr. Trump’s political campaign and disbursed by Mr. Trump’s campaign staff, rather than by the Foundation, in violation of [New York law]. However, taking into consideration that the Funds did ultimately reach their intended destinations, i.e., charitable organizations supporting veterans,
So the violation of state law centered upon HOW the money was disbursed. The Trump campaign did the distribution rather than the Foundation, and that was a violation of the law, but the money was never stolen. 
