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After Pledging to Donate Salary, Trump Declines to Release Proof

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The point remains that Trump is both taking his salary and keeping it.
Trump also claimed during the transition that any profits he made from foreign dignitaries staying at his hotels would likewise be donated to the U.S. Treasury. But there has been no evidence that this is taking place nor is there any mechanism for holding him accountable for that promise. And because Trump refuses to release his tax returns, there’s no way to independently verify.
It’s quite possible that Trump will simply break both promises — if for no reason that he’s made the exact same promise before and broken it.
Back in 2004, just before Trump first appeared on The Apprentice, he told Howard Stern that he would be donating his entire seven-figure salary from the show to charity. “Lots of charities: AIDS research, Police Athletic League, lots of different charities,” he said at the time. Three months later he admitted — again to Stern — that he was not donating the whole salary.