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Donald Trump's heated war with the media reached new heights as he turned the brag-worthy feat of raising $5.6 million for veterans' charities into a sparring match with reporters pressing him on the issue.
"The press should be ashamed of themselves," a defensive Trump railed during a Tuesday news conference at Trump Tower, called to announce a list of 41 charities that received a cut of the money he raised during a highly publicised January fundraiser.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee had previously declined to disclose which charities had received the $6 million he'd claimed to have raised, and his campaign had gone back and forth about how much pledged money had come through. The Washington Post had pressed for an accounting of the donations, and several charities said they received checks just last week.
Press:"Is this what Its going to be like calling us losers to our faces?"Throughout Tuesday's 40-minute question-and-answer session, Trump accused the media of being "unbelievably dishonest" in their treatment of him.
Trump:"Yeah, that's how it's going to be." pic.twitter.com/lL0dvX4THV
- Trump News & Videos (@Trump_Videos) June 1, 2016
"I sent people checks of a lot of money. ... And instead of being like, 'Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,' or 'Trump did a good job,' everyone's saying: 'Who got (the money)? Who got it? Who got it?' And you make me look very bad," he complained. "I have never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job."While Trump has frequently made the media a punching bag, calling out reporters during his signature rallies, the taunts Tuesday were intense, even for him. The billionaire mogul interrupted his recitation of the list of groups receiving portions of the money to complain about the way reporters had called up charities to try to verify his contributions. He called the political press "disgusting" and dismissed one ABC News reporter as "a sleaze."
The press is a frequent target of Donald Trump's, but he hasn't always been so critical... https://t.co/amZvq7VR2Z https://t.co/3PLqB0SIsT
- CNN (@CNN) May 31, 2016
"The problem here is the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does. He's bragged for months about raising $6 million for vets and donating $1 million himself, but it took a reporter to shame him into actually making the contribution." - Hillary ClintonTrump repeatedly insisted during the news conference that he didn't want "credit" for the contributions. However, he hadn't appeared shy about giving away poster-size checks at campaign events in the weeks after the fundraiser.
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