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If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Billion Clinton Foundation Gives Goes His Prestige Use You

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There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the causes they claim to focus on. Something like 80 or 90% of their money actually goes to a charitable purpose.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Actually Causes Charitable Charities Claim Decide Enough Finances Focus Giving Goes Like Look Main Money Organizations Purpose Rate Something Two Whether

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The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Bending Democrats Even Folks Lot Perception Rules See Who

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You need a lot of money to become president.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Become Lot Money Need President You

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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

Topics: About Defeat Did Done Election End Facts Feel Felt Fortunate He Help How How Much Job Keeping Less Man Moral Moral Responsibility Much Point President Promises Readers Reliable Responsibility Running Stories Tell Than Those Trump

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I read the collected works of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and made a list of everything the old Baptist preacher had ever condemned as immoral or untoward. The subjects of his condemnation ranged from college-age women going braless to dogs wearing clothes to Beyonce.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Arkansas Baptist Beyonce Clothes Collected Condemnation Condemned Dogs Ever Everything Former Going Governor Had His Immoral List Made Mike Old Preacher Read Subjects Wearing Women Works

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In 1996, Trump had crashed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a charity opening a nursery school for children with AIDS. Trump, who had never donated to the charity, stole a seat onstage that had been saved for a big contributor.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Aids Been Big Ceremony Charity Children Contributor Crashed Donated Had Never Nursery Onstage Opening Saved School Seat Stole Trump Who

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'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

Topics: Bad Candidates Consider Editors Fairly Get Gravity Place Post Profanity Reporter Sainthood Speed Story Top Tries Vatican Who Word

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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

Topics: Activists Area Break Broom Clever Closets Exploits Gray Gray Area Had In The Past Law Look Minor Moved Office Paper Past Punishment Rooms Say Thing Whole Your

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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

Topics: Agencies Basement Bureaucratic Changes Conditions Congress Illegal Instance Make Making Out Prohibited Punishment Purgatory Significant Speaking Theory Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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