“We did receive $25,000 from the Donald J. Trump Foundation”, said Joe Emmons of Veterans Count.
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“If the collective take away from Trump’s [press conference] is that he hates media and the media spends time fretting about this, then he’s met his goal for today”, tweeted Chuck Todd, the NBC News political director and moderator of “Meet The Press”.
Here are the veterans’ groups that have received money from the Trump campaign, totaling $5.6 million.
“The press they always want to make you look as bad as possible”, Trump said.
Reporters had repeatedly asked Trump to provide an accounting of the donations, requests that were frequently rebuffed or side-stepped by Trump and his campaign staff.
“I have raised a tremendous amount of money for the vets, nearly $6 million, and more money’s going to come in … nearly all of the money has been paid out”, Trump said.
While Trump’s fundraiser, held opposite a Fox News debate he chose to boycott, should have been a positive story for Trump, his campaign’s refusal to disclose details about the money raised became a sticking point.
“It was very unfair that the press treated us so badly”, Trump complained.
“I raised close to $6 million”.
Trump said that while he wasn’t “too involved” in picking the organizations, he gave the money to Marine Corps-Law Enforcement because they are “fabulous people”.
The charity received $75,000 from the presidential candidate Donald Trump’s foundation, according to a list released by his campaign Tuesday.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee touched off a firestorm when he spent much of his combative news conference in New York Tuesday blasting the media, and singling out some reporters for derision.
At the event, he said that he had managed to raise $6 million, but several media outlets said weeks later that there was no proof of any donations being made, while many associations confirmed that they had not received any such funds.
The Washington Post said Trump only handed over a personal donation of $1 million last week – four months after announcing it – once the newspaper started asking about the money.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the media regarding donations to veterans foundations at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. About half reported checks from Trump within the past week, typically dated May 24, the day The Washington Post published a story questioning whether he had distributed all of the money.
Without naming Trump, the White House Correspondent’s Association (WHCA) condemned any attack on the freedom of press.
“Sacramento has lost almost 1 in 5 manufacturing jobs”, Trump said. Trump referred to these journalists as “dishonest, not good people, sleazy and just worst human beings that could exist on earth”.
For 40 minutes, he had assailed those reporting on his candidacy with a level of venom rarely seen at all, let alone in public, from the standard-bearer of a major political party.
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Mr. Trump “did the right thing by vetting these groups”, said New Hampshire State Rep. Al Baldasaro, who also appeared with Mr. Trump during an April rally in Pittsburgh.
