Most reporting and politics and otherwise, you get a lot of tips and most tips don't pan

out.

You check something out and it turns out that the person who gave you the tip didn't really

understand the full details of the situation or what you thought was really illegal is actually

quite legal and very common.

There's all kinds of reasons why tips don't pan out.

That's just part of reporting is you chase down a lot of leads that don't go anywhere.

The Trump Foundation reporting was different because the success rate was like 100%.

Every time somebody called with a crazy story about something that happened or every time

you found something weird that looked strange in the documents, every time you thought

there was something there there was.

I mean every rocky turn over there was something underneath it that was sort of newsworthy

and worth calling about.

I've never had that kind of experience before.

A person called me one time out of the blue and said that they knew this story from

the mid 90s where Trump had once barged into somebody else's charity event and stolen

a seat on the stage and sat on the stage as if he had given the charity money during

a charity event even though he'd given them nothing.

And I thought at the time, well that's ridiculous.

There's no way that actually happened or if it didn't happen there's no way I can prove

it.

With the four phone calls later I was talking to somebody who was on the stage and watched

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