David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post, October 30, 2020, reports that he and a team of reporters sidestepped the State Department to uncover the extent of President Donald Trump’s enrichment of the Trump company through government payments. Eight months of pursuing normal channels of the Freedom of Information Act and the department’s press office garnered only two pages so they successfully asked other federal agencies for the information.
The Post found that Trump visited his properties over 280 times, spending some $2.5 million in taxpayer money. (The Washington Post, October 27, 2020, by David A. Fahrenthold)