I followed up this weekend with the Trump campaign to ask if they finally had a yes-or-no answer to Chuck Todd’s question. “According to our records, Mr. Trump has never donated to Planned Parenthood. This accounts for the last 25 years,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email. Taxes are typically filed jointly by married couples. Have any donations been made to Planned Parenthood in Trump’s wife’s name? “[To] my knowledge NO,” Hicks replied…
From 2009 to 2013, the billionaire Trump’s charitable foundation gave just $57,000 to veterans organizations while providing more than $100,000 to the scandal-plagued Clinton Foundation. It also gave about $57,000 to the Susan G. Komen foundation in 2012, the same year that the breast cancer charity courted controversy over its substantial donations to Planned Parenthood. The overall amount Trump’s charitable foundation has given to charity has amounted to a miniscule fraction of his supposed net worth. In 1999, the Smoking Gun website called Trump “The .00013% Man,” referring to the percentage of his wealth that the foundation had donated. As a percentage of Trump’s overall net worth, the Donald J Trump Foundation’s contributions haven’t increased much in recent years.
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