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" The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules. "

David Fahrenthold

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" 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. "

David Fahrenthold

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" We are in the era when I go home and have dinner with my kids and put them to bed, and hours later I go to Twitter, and the world has changed. "

" It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day. "

David Fahrenthold

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

" It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet people at Harvard; the chances don't come to you. "

" The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration. Every day, new reports are added, provided by relatives, funeral homes, and the state agencies that issue official death certificates. The list contains 90 million reports. "

" The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the vast majority of these cases are handled correctly: The death is recorded. Government money is no longer sent to that person. But not always. "

" If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige. "

" 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. "

" I used to cover the environment, and it does have the advantage of the fact that when you call people up and ask them questions, their first instinct is not to lie to you. "

" If your selling access to somebody who is a future president or current secretary of state, or if there's an implication that you are, that matters. "

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

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

" If you're the president of a charity, you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for yourself. And you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for your business. "

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

David Fahrenthold

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" Trump has a lot of contacts in the world of charity because he rents out ballrooms, hotel ballrooms, the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to charities. Charities are often the ones that rent out these ballrooms for big events. "

" Trump is a really complicated story and a difficult candidate to write about. "

" During the 2016 election cycle, Trump's campaign spent at least $791,000 to hold events at 12 Trump-branded venues: three hotels, seven golf courses, a condo building and Mar-a-Lago, federal campaign filings show. "

" In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making significant changes in a whistleblower's 'working conditions' as punishment for speaking out. "

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

" If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem. "

" In 1996, Trump had crashed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a charity opening a nursery school for children with AIDS. Trump, who had never donated to the charity, stole a seat onstage that had been saved for a big contributor. "

" 'The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into a story, the word is usually forwarded to top editors, who consider it with the gravity and speed that the Vatican applies to candidates for sainthood. "

" The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before. "

" Since Trump began running for president in summer 2015, he has repeatedly used his hotels and golf courses as venues for his campaign events - and paid himself for the privilege. "

" Trump has made claims about himself - about his charitable giving, his business success, even the size of the crowd at his inauguration - that are not supported by the facts. "

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

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

" Trump was on WrestleMania in 2007. And in that year and 2009, the McMahons gave a total of $5 million. Now, we know that wasn't Trump's payment for WrestleMania. He got paid separately, but about the same time, they made this $5 million donation. "