Margaret Carlson, Columnist

Bashful Trump Lets Us In on His Generosity

He invokes an uncharacteristic sense of decorum to explain delays in accounting for donations to veterans.

May 31, 2016 at 6:09 PM UTC

Corrected

May 31, 2016 at 6:42 PM UTC

Margaret Carlson was a White House correspondent for Time, a weekly panelist on CNN’s “Capital Gang” and an editor at the New Republic.

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For someone who claims he can change the world overnight -- stop wars, illegal immigration, Muslims and trade deals -- Donald Trump has been as slow as sludge in accounting for the money he bragged about raising for veterans in January.

Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, admitted on May 20 that he didn’t have an “exact number” of what was taken in, nor could he say what veterans' groups would be getting what.