to veterans. he said he was giving it all away to veterans groups, including a million dollars of his own money. when a reporter at the washington post dug into that, he discovered that a majority of the money from the fundraiser had not been given away and there was no evidence trump himself donated any of his own money anywhere. that story, that veteran's money story launched david farenthold on a beat that would eventually produce scoop after scoop about how trump ran his charitable foundation and his business. david farenthold revealed that donald trump never delivered and made charitable donations with other people's money and passed it off on his own, who broke tax law using his charitable foundation to settle legal disputes to settle donations and buy big portraits of himself and