Donald Trump Gave $0 to Charity in Past 5 Years

In-depth Washington Post study finds free rounds of golf, land-conservation agreements from Trump’s foundation — but no direct cash

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Perhaps Donald Trump isn’t as charitable as he’d like you to believe.

The Washington Post tore through 93 pages worth of 4,844 Donald J. Trump Foundation donations made over a half-decade, finding that not a one of them came directly from the wallet of the GOP candidate. While the Trump Foundation has been generous on paper, the man who controls it didn’t actually donate any of his own money between 2009 and 2014, the newspaper found.

By the way, that lengthy list of contributions the reporters carefully combed through — it came directly from the Trump campaign. It also had one glaring error: A $26 million land donation from 2006 that was too old to be included.

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