Donald Trump Didn't Donate to 9/11 Charities Like He Claimed: Report

NEW YORK, NY — If problems with women, minorities and his own political party weren't enough, new claims have been added that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did not donate to Sept. 11 charities as he claimed in the wake of the attacks.

A report in the New York Daily News on Friday — plastered across the tabloid's cover — says Trump never donated to the Twin Towers Fund or New York City Public/Private Initiatives Inc. in the year after the terrorist attacks, as he claimed. The audit was done by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, a Democrat, at the request of the Daily News.

Stringer looked into personal donations made by Trump, which had previously been sealed. According to the Daily News, Stringer found no donations to the Twin Towers Fund through Aug. 31, 2002 and no donations to the Public/Private Initiatives, Inc. through June 30, 2002.

This was in direct contrast to Trump saying he gave $10,000 to the Twin Towers Fund in the weeks after 9/11 as part of Howard Stern's fundraising effort, according to the Daily News. Stringer could not definitively conclude no money was given after the time period, but said it was clear Trump did not give in the weeks after the attack like he said.

A report by The Smoking Gun already cleared up Trump's charity, the Trump Foundation, did not make any gifts to Sept. 11-related charities in 2001 and 2002. The Daily News looked at Trump Foundation donations from 2001 to 2014 and found no donations to the Twin Towers Fund either.

>>Read the full Daily News report on Trump's lack of giving here.

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