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" What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece. "
David Fahrenthold
Wearing
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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. "
David Fahrenthold
Hotel
World
Big
" 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. "
David Fahrenthold
Money
Family
Foundation
" 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. "
David Fahrenthold
Punishment
Working
Congress
" In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what? "
David Fahrenthold
Office
Clever
Say
" Marty Baron, 'The Post''s executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the Trump Foundation specifically. I also became interested in researching Trump's broader history of charity. "
David Fahrenthold
Foundation
Charity
History
" The Trump Foundation's tax returns are public. That's one thing. So we can look through them in a way that we can't look through his personal tax returns. They're publicly available going back to the beginning of the foundation, which is 1987. "
David Fahrenthold
Foundation
Beginning
Back
" In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. "
David Fahrenthold
Foundation
Club
Portrait
" Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts. "
David Fahrenthold
Gifts
Foundation
Political
" Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, have both been criticized during their campaigns for activities related to their foundations. "
David Fahrenthold
Been
Opponent
Foundations
" I am not going to argue about whether I am a nasty guy. "
David Fahrenthold
Guy
I Am
Nasty
" The federal helium program sells vast amounts of the gas to U.S. companies that use it in everything from party balloons to MRI machines. If the government stops, no one else is ready. "
David Fahrenthold
Government
Party
Balloons
" You know how country music stars get an extra 10 years on their life when they go to Branson? Like you're washed up, and you go to Branson, then you can last another 10 years. That's what bashing the media does. "
David Fahrenthold
Know
Life
Media
" 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. "
David Fahrenthold
Privilege
Running
Golf
" The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running for president. How reliable was he at keeping promises? How much moral responsibility did he feel to help those less fortunate than he? By the end of the election, I felt I'd done my job. "
David Fahrenthold
Responsibility
Election
End
" 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. "
David Fahrenthold
Security
Death
Every Day
" I feel like I understand Trump's character better than the average person now, having seen all of these little interactions with charity. I wanted to keep doing something that's like that, and not just doing pure politics. So my piece of the Trump empire is the golf courses, Mar-a-Lago, and the winery. "
David Fahrenthold
Politics
Golf
Feel
" The biggest correlation you find is with Trump's own personal and business interests. He lives in Palm Beach part of the year, where charity galas are a big part of the life. And he runs a club in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, that depends a lot on being rented out by charities, who can pay as much as $275,000 per night to rent out his club. "
David Fahrenthold
Life
Beach
Business
" Trump started his foundation in 1987 to give away the proceeds from his book 'The Art of the Deal.' It has no paid employees and a board of five: Trump, three of his children, and a longtime Trump Organization employee. They all work a half-hour per week, according to the foundation's most recent Internal Revenue Service filing. "
David Fahrenthold
Work
Service
Art
" 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. "
David Fahrenthold
Rules
Things
Money
" Even when he was just a reality-TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in 'Time.' But that wasn't true. The 'Time' cover is a fake. There was no 1 March 2009 issue of 'Time' magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover. "
David Fahrenthold
True
Fake
Kind
" '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. "
David Fahrenthold
Gravity
Bad
Top
" In a given year, the government may decide that farmers are growing more raisins than Americans will want to eat. That would cause supply to outstrip demand. Raisin prices would drop. And raisin farmers might go out of business. "
David Fahrenthold
Growing
Want
Government
" There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I live the life of Scrooge McDuck.' The other side was, 'I need your money. Give me money.' "
David Fahrenthold
Money
Character
Life
" 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. "
David Fahrenthold
Live
Like
Greatness
" I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away. "
David Fahrenthold
Mexico
Move
Right
" A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to give a lot of money to a particular cancer charity or to a group researching some particular disease or their alma mater. We haven't really found anything like that with Trump. "
David Fahrenthold
People
Responsibility
Money
" The Trump campaign generally does not respond at all to my requests for information - either requests for broader data on Trump's charitable giving or narrow requests for information about specific subjects, like the $20,000 portrait of himself that Trump seems to have purchased with money from his charity. "
David Fahrenthold
Giving
Money
Information
" The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money. "
David Fahrenthold
Problem
Dead
Government
" The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules. "
David Fahrenthold
Rules
See
Perception
" The Trump people make it extremely hard to figure out what's going on with their businesses, so we've done things like try to figure out all the people, the charities who rented out ballrooms and hotel rooms, all the NBA teams that stay at his hotels, people that pay him a lot of money and have other choices. "
David Fahrenthold
Try
Choices
Done