David Fahrenthold

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

You need a lot of money to become president. ”

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. ”

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

For me, the thing that is different about Trump is that you don't realize it, and I didn't realize it, but there is a rhythm that the political press - including myself - expects people to show in terms of embarrassing statements or shameful acts. And that is spinning it away and finally being forced to apologize, and then apologize again. ”

Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity - the Palm Beach Police Foundation - for his 'selfless support' of its cause. His support did not include any of his own money. ”

We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off. ”

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

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

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life. ”