While under pressure to account for money he claimed to raise for veterans, an angry and irritated Donald Trump listed on Tuesday, a number of charities that he says have now received millions of dollars from a fundraiser he held in January.
Trump told reporters, at a testy news conference in New York, that the fundraiser held raised $5.6 million. He previously had declined to disclose which charities had received the funds, and his campaign has gone back and forth about how much was raised:
Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, had originally told The Washington Post that the event had raised about $4.5 million — less than the $6 million originally announced by Trump — because some who’d pledged contributions had backed out: