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@realDonaldTrump An investigation by the Washington Post has not been able to validate that Trump has actually donated the money he pledged, instead finding, “Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.”
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@realDonaldTrump David Farhenthold of the Post has suggested that the Trump Foundation has transformed over the last decade from "standard-issue rich person’s philanthropy into a charity that allowed a rich man to be philanthropic for free."
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@realDonaldTrump The Trump Foundation was accused by attorney general, Barbara Underwood, of “functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests,” and of engaging in “a shocking pattern of illegality”.
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@realDonaldTrump In April 2016 Fox News reported that more than two months after Trump said he had raised $6 million for military veterans at a pre-Iowa caucus fundraiser, "most of the organizations targeted to receive the money have gotten less than half of that amount."
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@realDonaldTrump The Village Voice concluded that Trump may have directed the grants to the museum to curry favor with the museum's then chairman, Eddie Malloy, who was also head of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.
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@realDonaldTrump An investigation by the New York City Comptroller's office showed that Trump and the Donald Trump Foundation may have failed to honor at least one pledge to charities established to provide relief for victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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@realDonaldTrump In 2016, Trump's campaign suggested that the Trump Foundation made a grant to the American Red Cross after the 9/11 attacks; however, no record of this exists in the foundation's tax filings from 2001 through 2014.
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@realDonaldTrump In 2007, Trump used Trump Foundation funds to settle a 2006 legal dispute between the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, and Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club.
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@realDonaldTrump Trump's foundation paid $158,000 to the Martin B. Greenberg Foundation as a settlement of a lawsuit brought by Greenberg against the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
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@realDonaldTrump In 2013, the Trump Foundation donated $25,000 in support of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's election campaign while Bondi's office was reviewing fraud allegations against Trump University, a for-profit real estate program created by Donald Trump.
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@realDonaldTrump In May 2015, the Trump Foundation granted $10,000 to Project Veritas, a fake news organisation run by conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe.
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@realDonaldTrump In 2007, Trump spent $20,000 in Trump Foundation funds to purchase a six-foot-tall portrait of himself by artist Michael Israel at a benefit for a Florida charity, the Children's Place at Homespace.
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@realDonaldTrump In 2008, Trump used $107,000 of Trump Foundation funds to purchase a luxury trip to Paris, including a meeting with actress Salma Hayek, at a charity auction for the Gucci Foundation.
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@realDonaldTrump In 2014, at a charity for the Unicorn Children's Foundation held at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump purchased a four-foot-tall portrait of himself in the 1990s by Argentine artist Havi Schanz and paid for it with $20,000 of Trump Foundation funds.
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