"Crooked Hillary says we must call on Saudi Arabia and other countries to stop funding hate," Trump wrote on June 13, 2016. "I am calling on her to immediately return the $25 million plus she got from them for the Clinton Foundation!"
About 300,000 people responded to that post, and it was shared more than 56,000 times. We wanted to know if Trump’s $25 million figure was correct.
We soon found that independently confirming information about the Clinton foundation is challenging at best.
Nonprofits, such as the Clinton Foundation, have nearly no obligation to publicly reveal who gives them money. They might need to tell a government agency, but the details remain confidential.
We asked the Trump campaign for proof and they didn’t get back to us. The only thing we found from the campaign was a list that included broad-range figures of the Saudi donations to the foundation, along with donations from an unnamed group of "Friends of Saudi Arabia."
Trump can’t prove that he’s right. But by the same token, it’s just about as difficult to prove conclusively that he’s wrong.
So, yet another unsupported accusation by Trump. Is it any wonder one of the most common words Americans associate with him is "liar?"
9. What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump? (Numbers are not percentages. Figures show the number of times each response was given. This table reports only words that were mentioned at least five times.)
idiot 39
incompetent 31
liar 30
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(top three choices shown)
And a foundation supported by his daughter got contributions from Saudi Arabia.
It's illegal for a campaign to get, or even solicit anything of value from a foreign government. Which is why Donnie Trump Jr. (and possibly Donald Trump himself) are in big trouble. And it's why Hillary isn't in any trouble at all.