David Fahrenthold

I am not going to argue about whether I am a nasty guy.

— David Fahrenthold

The national raisin reserve is real.

— David Fahrenthold

You need a lot of money to become president.

— David Fahrenthold

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

— 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

You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?

— David Fahrenthold

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

— David Fahrenthold

All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.

— 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

We are in the era when I go home and have dinner with my kids and put them to bed, and hours…

— David Fahrenthold

Trump was on WrestleMania in 2007. And in that year and 2009, the McMahons gave a total of $5 million. Now, we…

— David Fahrenthold

Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.

— 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

Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The…

— David Fahrenthold

It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet…

— David Fahrenthold

In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists…

— 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

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident.…

— 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

The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration.…

— 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

So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They…

— 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

There is a way to tell the truth about you without you; it's just a lot more work.

— 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

Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.

— 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

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

— David Fahrenthold

The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money.

— David Fahrenthold

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

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

— David Fahrenthold

Miami is the place where all great Medicare fraud schemes come from. It has a great concentration of professional criminals and old…

— David Fahrenthold

I started at 'The Post' as an intern in 2000 right after I got out of college.

— David Fahrenthold