Posted on 05/31/2016 10:40:33 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Donald Trump fired back Tuesday at reports questioning his fundraising haul from a high-profile veterans event in January, releasing an extensive list of charities he said received the donations -- and slamming the media for questioning him.
During a press conference at Trump Tower, the presumptive Republican nominee said he's raised $5.6 million and more is coming in.
He rattled off the list of charities and the amounts they received, while taking scathing and sometimes-personal shots at the media for pressuring him to disclose the information.
I have never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job, Trump said. He added, The press should be ashamed of themselves.
The list contained dozens of groups including the Fisher House Foundation and the Green Beret Foundation, which received $115,000 and $350,000, respectively.
In between detailing the recipients, Trump also called members of the media losers and complained they treated him unfairly. I don't want the credit for it, but I shouldn't be lambasted, Trump said, explaining why he named the charities and the donation amounts.
In January, donors sent money to the Donald J. Trump Foundation when the billionaire businessman held a fundraiser in Iowa the same night he skipped a Fox News Republican debate. He said they raised $6 million and pledged to give the proceeds of the event to charity.
He also pledged to kick in $1 million of his own money to the cause.
The campaign for months, though, would not disclose which charities got the money, amid speculation that the fundraising haul was not as large as he claimed.
But last week, Lewandowski told CBS This Morning that Trump will ultimately give $5.5 million to $6 million to veteran groups. Lewandowski said $4.5 million had already been attributed.
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YEP, they attempt to “couch” their bias, but anyone who graduated from HS can pick it up by word choice, tone, inflection, omissions (ala Katie Couric) etc.
Thanks! Trump was right, the guy is a sleaze. What a loaded question!!
Maybe the Europeans think because you made the mistake of choosing the closest thing to a European socialist metrosexual (twice!) the US had forgotten its history and become all soft and gooey.
Are they going to be in for a surprise!
Six billion—yes, billion—went missing from the State Department on Hillary!’s watch; yet no one in the media seems too interested in that story.
CBS, NBC,and FOX are insulted that their people didn’t get insulted.
I have a link in my post #46. :)
Just found this. The guy Trump called a “sleaze” has attacked Trump on numerous occasions, here’s one. Typical lib jerk.
ABCs Tom Llamas Yells at Trump: Anchor Baby Is an Offensive Term!”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2015/08/20/abcs-tom-llamas-yells-trump-anchor-baby-offensive-term
As in, Trump didn't take a chunk of the monies received.
He’s very savvy. Let’s be honest, Ted Cruz won Iowa and Trump wrapped it around his neck for the remainder of the campaign and turned it into a huge negative. Very savvy
I suspect these left wing publications get a substantial amount of that $22billion per year of Global Warming money. During Bush one newspaper after another was failing, but the last eight years “something” has been propping them up. Just my uneducated suspicion.
You had me worried for a minute!
Trump will wait until Hillary or her minions respond then hit them over the head with Hillary’s misdeeds. Works every time.
Yet, amazingly, he got lots of applause at the end of the press conference.
The people at the press conference— every last one of them, almost without a doubt— realize that Hillary Clinton simply does not give press conferences, and the reason is, because her campaign is frail and built on lies. She only lets the same 14 journalists (*) in her campaign “press pool” ask questions, and even then, not very often. So, local reporters are totally frozen out from asking Hillary questions at Hillary campaign stops. Any of the 14 reporters in Hillary’s pool risk being kicked out of her pool if they dare raise an improper question, such as about the money laundering going on with the Clinton Foundation and its Canadian counterpart, or about Bill Clinton’s numerous visits to the Dominican Republic where Jeffrey Epstein solicits underage girls and boys as sex slaves for politician buddies such as Bill. Local affiliates often simply refer questions to the main office (eg in New York City). I think the time has come to regard the press as a hostile enemy...
(*) anyone have a list of the 14 journalists in the Hillary campaign pool? Apparently she has been doing this since the at least the days of Vince Foster’s mysterious death.
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