There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Once money goes into a charity, it is tax exempt, so that's a benefit you get. And in return, you have to… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
IRS rules generally prohibit acts of 'self-dealing,' in which a charity's leaders use the nonprofit group's money to buy things for themselves. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler.… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
If you're the president of a charity, you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The Trump people make it extremely hard to figure out what's going on with their businesses, so we've done things like try… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
For years, Trump himself was the Trump Foundation's only source of money: Between 1987 and 2006, he donated $5.4 million. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The Trump campaign generally does not respond at all to my requests for information - either requests for broader data on Trump's… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I live the… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet people at… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The federal helium program sells vast amounts of the gas to U.S. companies that use it in everything from party balloons to MRI machines.… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Trump was on WrestleMania in 2007. And in that year and 2009, the McMahons gave a total of $5 million. Now, we know that… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Marty Baron, 'The Post's executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the Trump Foundation… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Don't focus on what Trump says. Focus on the results of his actions. Stay in your lane and focus on one particular area. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Trump called me a 'nasty guy' on the phone, and some of his surrogates called me 'obsessed' and biased on TV. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Miami is the place where all great Medicare fraud schemes come from. It has a great concentration of professional criminals and old people. — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
I feel like I understand Trump's character better than the average person now, having seen all of these little interactions with charity. I wanted… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The Trump Foundation's tax returns are public. That's one thing. So we can look through them in a way that we can't look through… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image