In verifying Donald Trump’s claim of contributing million to charities, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold contacting charities, over 350, listing his findings on legal paper and posting the list to Twitter, informing and involving the public. (NiemanLab, September 9, 2-016, by Ricardo Bilton)
Since June Fahrenthold has been checking the Trump Foundation finding scant evidence of largess while posting e-mails of questions and responses from the Trump campaign so readers can make judgments on their own. Fahrenthold’s Post editor Steven Ginsberg thinks Fahrenthold “has pioneered a new way to hold powerful people to account that will endure well beyond this story and this election.” (CNN, September 14, 2016, by Brian Stelter)