Lessons from my search for Donald Trump's personal giving to charity
I’ve spent the last few months trying to prove Donald Trump right about something important.
So far, I’ve failed.
Trump has promised to give millions of dollars of his own money to charity. Trying to find evidence of them, I first looked at the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Dead end. Tax records show no gifts from Trump to his namesake foundation since 2008. Then I looked at the Trump campaign's official list of his donations. Dead end. That list included thousands of free rounds of golf, given away by Trump's golf courses. But no gifts of cash from Trump's own pocket. His campaign said those gifts did exist. It just wouldn't say who got them.
So I kept looking, starting with the individual charities that Trump seemed closest to. He'd attended their galas. Praised them on Twitter. Given them cash from the Trump Foundation's dwindling pot of money.
I've tried 259 of those charities so far.
I've found one gift, out of Trump's own pocket, between 2008 and this May.
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