David Farenthold Biography

David A. Fahrenthold is a Washington Post reporter who focuses on politics, particularly the 2016 United States presidential election. Fahrenthold covered the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, focusing on the Donald J. Trump Foundation and Trump's assertions as the Republican nominee for president that he had given away millions of dollars out of his own pocket. Fahrenthold began an effort to verify these personal gifts in May 2016; to generate leads and for openness, he shared updates on Twitter via a hand-written list of organizations he had called to ask whether they had received contributions from Trump, as well as the charities' answers. After four months, Fahrenthold and colleagues at the Post had contacted over 400 prominent charities, with just one confirming they had received a personal gift from Trump between 2008 and May 2016, when Fahrenthold began publicly reporting on the issue. Following Fahrenthold's revelations, the New York attorney general launched an investigation into the Trump Foundation's fundraising methods, eventually issuing a notice of violation ordering the Foundation to cease fundraising in New York. Due to a series of disclosures concerning Donald Trump's charitable contributions, the Poynter Institute named Fahrenthold one of the 2016 campaign's journalistic stars (or lack of same). According to CNN senior media journalist Brian Stelter, "others have called [Fahrenthold's work] Pulitzer-worthy." Its significance was underscored on Tuesday [September 13, 2016], when President Obama referenced the findings while campaigning for Hillary Clinton. On October 7, 2016, Fahrenthold revealed the existence of a 2005 Access Hollywood video in which Donald Trump made what Politico described as obscene statements about groping women; among other things, Trump stated that his notoriety enabled him to grab them by the pussy without consequence. At 11 a.m. that day, an anonymous source phoned Fahrenthold and informed him of the recording's existence; at 4 p.m., Fahrenthold released the tape and a reported story about it. According to the publication, it became the most simultaneously read article in The Post's website's history. The news emerged two days before the second of two presidential debates between Trump and Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton in the United States in 2016. Access Hollywood, which airs on NBC, discovered the recording earlier in the week and was working on a piece, but it was not scheduled to air until the following Monday, the day after the debate. When Fahrenthold broke the story at the Post, it was picked up by both Access Hollywood and NBC News the next night.

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