Trump Quotes by David Fahrenthold

Don't focus on what Trump says. Focus on the results of his actions. Stay in your lane and focus on one particular…

— David Fahrenthold

Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts.

— David Fahrenthold

Trump is a really complicated story and a difficult candidate to write about.

— David Fahrenthold

We learned that Trump had not given a million dollars away. When Corey Lewandowski told me that, it was a lie.

— David Fahrenthold

The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.

— David Fahrenthold

It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

— David Fahrenthold

The Palm Beach Police Foundation is a client of Trump's. They pay to rent out Mar-a-Lago every year.

— David Fahrenthold

Trump called me a 'nasty guy' on the phone, and some of his surrogates called me 'obsessed' and biased on TV.

— David Fahrenthold

What I found in my research on Trump's charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but…

— David Fahrenthold

In 1996, Trump had crashed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a charity opening a nursery school for children with AIDS. Trump, who had…

— David Fahrenthold

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He…

— David Fahrenthold

During the 2016 election cycle, Trump's campaign spent at least $791,000 to hold events at 12 Trump-branded venues: three hotels, seven golf…

— David Fahrenthold

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

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

Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, have both been criticized during their campaigns for activities related to their foundations.

— David Fahrenthold

If someone shut down Twitter tomorrow, and Trump had to get started on some other platform, he'd never do it. And I…

— David Fahrenthold

The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running…

— David Fahrenthold

I feel like I understand Trump's character better than the average person now, having seen all of these little interactions with charity.…

— David Fahrenthold

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

In five cases, the Trump Foundation told the IRS that it had given a gift to a charity whose leaders told 'The…

— David Fahrenthold

Trump started his foundation in 1987 to give away the proceeds from his book 'The Art of the Deal.' It has no…

— David Fahrenthold

The biggest correlation you find is with Trump's own personal and business interests. He lives in Palm Beach part of the year,…

— David Fahrenthold

For me, the thing that is different about Trump is that you don't realize it, and I didn't realize it, but there…

— David Fahrenthold

The Trump campaign generally does not respond at all to my requests for information - either requests for broader data on Trump's…

— David Fahrenthold

For years, Trump himself was the Trump Foundation's only source of money: Between 1987 and 2006, he donated $5.4 million.

— David Fahrenthold

I started covering Trump's charitable giving sort of by accident.

— David Fahrenthold

If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it…

— David Fahrenthold

In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall…

— David Fahrenthold

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his…

— David Fahrenthold

Trump has a lot of contacts in the world of charity because he rents out ballrooms, hotel ballrooms, the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago…

— David Fahrenthold

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…

— David Fahrenthold

There are some things about Trump's foundation and charity that I really want to know. I worry there may not be enough…

— David Fahrenthold

Federal election laws bar candidates from the 'personal use' of campaign donations - a ban meant to stop candidates from buying things…

— David Fahrenthold

Since Trump began running for president in summer 2015, he has repeatedly used his hotels and golf courses as venues for his…

— David Fahrenthold

Marty Baron, 'The Post's executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the…

— David Fahrenthold

Trump has made claims about himself - about his charitable giving, his business success, even the size of the crowd at his…

— David Fahrenthold

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

Even when he was just a reality-TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in 'Time.' But…

— David Fahrenthold

Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler.…

— David Fahrenthold