Eric Trump said his charity received "hundreds of thousands" from his father. Now he's not sure.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Last week, Eric Trump said that his own charitable foundation had received "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in personal donations from his father.

But on Monday, Eric Trump said he could not name a single instance when Donald Trump had given such a gift.

"Im sure there have been but without going back through 10 years, I wouldnt remember check for check off the top of my head," Eric Trump wrote in an email message to The Washington Post.

Eric Trump made those comments in response to follow-up questions from The Post which has been seeking evidence for Donald Trump's assertion that he has given generously, but privately, to charities in recent years.

As the day went on, Eric Trump was pressed to explain the contrast with his own statements from a few days before.

Why had he asserted that his father had given his charity hundreds of thousands of dollars, if now he didn't remember it ever happening?

"Just to be clear, I never said no," Eric Trump wrote in a late-evening email on Monday, meaning he hadn't said that Donald Trump had not given the Eric Trump Foundation a personal gift.

But Eric Trump said he was too busy to look for evidence that would back up his earlier statements: "I have a lot going on I just don't have the time. Good luck with the story," he wrote.

Those comments undermine what was for a few days the strongest testimonial about Donald Trump's recent giving to charity.

That issue has become a test of character and honesty for the presumptive GOP nominee who, earlier this year, made good on a promise to give $1 million to a veterans charity only after intense media scrutiny.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/12/eric-trump-said-his-charity-received-hundreds-of-thousands-from-his-father-now-hes-not-sure/

[Rob L 3,811]

Please don't be a negative nelly, the Trumps have yuuuuge piles of money and cannot be expect to account for every million dollars

[ExPatty 502]

This can be sorted if Trump wins. He can get Eric a position with the state department and then use his government leverage to force foreign states to donate far more than what we're talking about here to his slush fund charity.

[John Miller 761]

Please don't be a negative nelly, the Trumps have yuuuuge piles of money and cannot be expect to account for every million dollars

We're not even talking about "millions". It's just hundreds of thousands. The kind of stuff that falls behind the couch pillows. How does one account for that?