Author: David A. Fahrenthold
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Mourners gather to pay tribute to McCain at US Capitol
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain’s body has arrived to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, beginning three days of Washington area memorials that will trace McCain’s long career in reverse – from the halls of the Senate to the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. An honor guard of soldiers, sailors,…
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida seeks to hire 61 foreign workers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club has applied for permission to hire 61 foreign workers to serve as waiters and cooks during the winter social season in Palm Beach, Fla., according to data posted this week by the Labor Department. The latest data was posted late Thursday…
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Boy Scouts leader apologizes for Trump speech’s ‘political rhetoric’
A leader of the Boy Scouts of America apologized Thursday for a speech that President Trump gave to thousands of teenage Scouts earlier this week — in which Trump broke with the Scouts’ earnest traditions by criticizing his political opponents, recounting his election victory and talking about parties on yachts. “I want to extend my…
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A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.
The framed copy of Time Magazine was hung up in at least four of President Trump’s golf clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump. “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the big headline said. Above the Time nameplate, there was another headline in all…
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Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising by New York attorney general’s office
The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump’s charity to stop its fundraising immediately, the attorney general’s office said Monday. James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s charities bureau, sent the “notice of violation” to…
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Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Donald Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire’s for-profit businesses, according to interviews and a review of legal documents. Those cases, which together used…
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Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans’ families. Before that, however, when…
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Trump gave money to a veterans group with ties to a backer – Hannity
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Fox News Channel on Tuesday night, host Sean Hannity interviewed Donald Trump. Hannity asked Trump about a bitter news conference that the presumptive Republican nominee had given earlier in the day, when Trump announced donations to veterans groups, using money…