Donald Trump has claimed that he gave over $102 million to charity over the past five years. But a look at the records shows that this counts free golf games and land that he agrees not to develop. He actually donated not a penny of actual money. Nothing, of course, to church. (He did recently give $100,000 to the 9/11 Memorial, but that was not part of the charitable giving that he documented over the past five years.)
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From Missing from Trump’s list of charitable giving: His own personal cash – The Washington Post
Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years.
To back up that claim, Trump’s campaign compiled a list of his contributions— 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages.
But, in that massive list, one thing was missing.
Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of Trump’s own money.
Instead, according to a Washington Post analysis, many of the gifts that Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles.
The largest items on the list were not cash gifts but land-
conservation agreements to forgo development rights on property Trump owns.
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