President Donald J. Trump on the campaign trail in Las Vegas in October.

Long before Donald Trump used his presidential power to make himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he was forced to shut down his own charitable foundation after being caught repeatedly violating the laws governing nonprofit entities in New York.

Besides shuttering the Trump Foundation, Trump agreed to certain conditions — one of which he now appears to be flagrantly violating.

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Six years ago, during his first term as president, Trump admitted to a long train of abuses of the eponymous foundation he established in 1987.

He admitted how the foundation’s board of directors hadn’t even met for close to 20 years, failing to provide the required oversight to ensure that charitable funds are spent properly.

He admitted that in 2007, he used the foundation’s money to resolve a legal dispute involving his Mar-A-Lago private club’s violation of local ordinances.

How in 2011, he involved the foundation in a lawsuit settlement by Trump National Golf Course in Briarcliff.

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How in 2013, he had the foundation donate $25,000 to the campaign of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (who would later serve as his lawyer in his first impeachment trial, and whom Trump has now made U.S. Attorney General).

How that same year, the foundation parlayed a charitable contribution to the........

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