Where it could be a liability for Trump is that in today’s segmented media environment, where certain demographics follow only certain news outlets, a campaign needs the ability to nuance their message, Elleithee said. “Some of it went out more recently”. “But all of this has gone out”. Of those, about half said they’d received checks from Trump “just last week”. (In an interview that day Trump said he’d made the donation the day before, but according to the Associated Press, his check is dated May 24.) And in fact, most of the money from the fundraiser was distributed on May 24, the day the Washington Post published its story about the candidate’s sluggish response time.
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“More is coming in”, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said during a news conference at Trump Tower that he called largely to dispute the news reports about fundraising for veterans.
“I sent people checks of a lot of money”.
Amid reporters’ questions, Trump and his campaign have repeatedly offered conflicting accounts of how much money was raised and declined multiple requests to provide a full accounting. Other donors, both large and small, had entrusted this money to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, on the understanding that Trump would then distribute it to veterans.
The likely Democratic presidential nominee is attempting to take down Trump by zeroing in on individual issues, starting with housing and veterans’ care, and hitting their Republican foe with coordinated attacks.
Clinton’s campaign, for instance, sent out a memo to reporters questioning Trump’s policy proposals for veterans ahead of his Tuesday news conference. As the Post further points out: “On the night of the [January Iowa] fundraiser, Trump said he “gave” $1 million of his own”.
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.
Over the a year ago, Trump has repeatedly called out individual reporters on Twitter and in interviews for everything from what he viewed as insufficient crowd shots to biased reporting.
What happened on Fifth Avenue may signal a new phase in Trump’s relationship with the press. She said the group had “an inkling” that more might come but the amount was a happy surprise.
Veterans Count and Liberty House are not among the charities that received their donations within the last week.
“I didn’t have to do this”, Trump said.
Trump said he’d raised $6 million for veterans, but that wasn’t true.
Following Donald Trump’s criticisms of the political press yesterday, various reporters have hurried to tell us that he is making a mistake.
After that, however, Trump became reluctant to release details about what had become of the money. He said such donations should be private, as if he had not publicly promised to give $1 million of his own money to these groups and his campaign has been saying for months that he had already given the money away – even though he hadn’t. The BBB said customers received “a high volume of what they consider to be harassing phone calls” from the group’s solicitors. Representatives from the foundation, accompanied by several service dogs, accepted the check at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa, where Trump was being interviewed on stage.
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“His greatest claim to fame is telling people ‘you’re fired, ‘ Clark said, referring to Trump’s time on the reality TV show “The Apprentice”. “Reporters are supposed to hold public figures accountable”.
