# David Fahrenthold **David Fahrenthold** is the investigative reporter whose 2016 [[Washington Post]] series on the [[Trump Foundation]] — conducted largely in public, by tweeting his handwritten call lists of charities that had or had not received Trump's promised gifts — established that Donald Trump had given far less than he claimed, that the Foundation was funded by other people's money, and that it had paid for portraits of Trump and a political contribution to [[Pam Bondi]]. The series won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and supplied the New York Attorney General's case that ended in the [[Trump Foundation Dissolution]]. He also broke the [[Access Hollywood Tape]] story (October 7, 2016). Since 2021 he has covered nonprofits and money in politics for the *New York Times*. > [!note] Stub > Created to resolve links from the Trump Foundation page. Expand: the crowdsourced method, the *Access Hollywood* story, his post-2021 work on the Trump businesses and the emoluments record. ## See Also - [[Trump Foundation]] · [[Trump Foundation Dissolution]] · [[Washington Post]] · [[New York Times]]