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This foundation would not be funded by transferring valuable shares in the riverboat. Instead, Trump Indiana would give it an initial $1 million, followed by $100,000 annual donations. This money would fund a handful of $5,000 scholarships to Gary high school graduates every year.

But according to its most recent available tax filings, from 2012-2014, the foundation had donated no money to the city of Gary, Indiana.

Lying about charity donations must be a family thing: Eric Trump called the Washington Post last week in an attempt to defend his father's claims that he's so charitable. The younger Trump said his father had personally donated "hundreds of thousands of dollars” to his charity, the Eric Trump Foundation. A few days later, when reached by the Post to elaborate on this statement, he couldn't name a single time when his father had given a personal gift donation to the charity.

"I'm sure there have been but without going back through 10 years, I wouldn't remember check for check off the top of my head,” the younger Trump told the Washington Post in an email.

When pushed further about why he would say his father had given hundreds of [thousands of ] dollars to his charity but now can't mention any instance when this happened, he said he was too busy. "I have a lot going on - I just don't have the time. Good luck with the story,” he wrote in another email.

The Post has been investigating Donald Trump's allegations that he has given countless donations privately over the years. They have so far found that Trump's promises " add up to more than $8.5 million. But public records show little evidence that Trump made good on those promises. He has given away only $2.8 million through his Donald J. Trump Foundation, and public records show no gifts at all from Trump to his namesake foundation since 2008.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/more-reports-show-trumps-pattern-of-lying-about-charity-donations/