Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 29
$6 million raised 'for the vets' — then four months of silence
Late“[paraphrase] We raised $6 million for the veterans, including $1 million of my own money, and it's going out to veterans' charities right away.”
- Promised
- , Televised veterans' benefit at Drake University, Des Moines, held instead of a Fox News primary debate
- Stated deadline
- “right away / immediately” → February 4, 2016
- Re-promised
- 2 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
By March 2016 the Washington Post found much of the money unaccounted for and charities said they had not received it. Trump only wrote his own $1 million cheque on May 24, 2016 — nearly four months later, and only after Post reporter David Fahrenthold pressed him publicly. The related Trump Foundation reporting contributed to the foundation's court-ordered dissolution and a $2 million payment in 2019.