This Trump Golf club claimed it's given $5 million to charity. NPR can only track down $800,000 of it.
The Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles used to claim it had contributed $5 million to charity. Then NPR started asking questions.
Just a few months ago, a philanthropy page on the Southern California club's website listed about 200 nonprofit groups, saying it had given them a total of about $5 million. Now, that page has been stripped of all those claims.
The redaction came soon after NPR started questioning the club's charitable giving. So far, NPR has only been able account for $800,000 of the supposed $5 million in donations, and 17 of the listed charities had no record of contributions from the club at all.
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A producer from NPR's Embedded podcast discussed the team's findings on Wednesday's Morning Edition program:
The Embedded team cross-referenced the list on the golf club's website with a publicly available list the Trump campaign put out detailing donations it had made over the years. Several organizations on the website weren't on the campaign's list, and upon calling these organizations, NPR found they had no record of Trump National donations on the books.
Need a little more proof of Trump National's backtracking? You can still see the $5 million claim if you hover over the "About" tab on its website.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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