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| - Campaign finance records showed Trump donated $5,000 to Harris' reelection campaign for California attorney general in 2011. He also donated $1,000 to the same campaign in 2013. Separately, Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump donated $2,000 to Harris' reelection effort in California in 2014.
Shortly after U.S. President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the election, a rumor circulated alleging that former President Donald Trump had once donated to Harris' political pursuits.
According to various outlets ranging from The Wall Street Journal to celebrity social media accounts PopCrave and PopBase, Trump reportedly made a $5,000 donation to Harris' 2014 reelection campaign for California attorney general. (Voters initially elected her to that office in 2010, and she successfully ran for reelection in 2014.)
Some media outlets and social media users shared an image of the alleged check used for the donation. Among them was U.S.
It was true that, in 2011, Trump donated $5,000 to Harris' reelection campaign for California attorney general, campaign finance records showed. He also donated $1,000 to the same campaign in 2013. Separately, Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump donated $2,000 to Harris' reelection effort in California.
As far as the purported image of the $5,000 check, Snopes was unable to uncover evidence to independently corroborate its legitimacy. That said, there was no indication that it was a fabricated image (i.e., digitally created), and its information aligned with California campaign finance records. The image first appeared online in 2019, when media outlets reportedly obtained a copy of the check.
By federal and state election laws, political candidates must report all campaign donations, and those transactions are publicly viewable. In this case, we used the California Secretary of State's database of campaign finances, which provides data between 2001 and the present. We limited our search results to display only donations made to Harris and used the keyword "Trump" to search for the alleged contribution.
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We found three donations, totaling $8,000, all of which were made to Harris' 2014 reelection campaign for California attorney general. The first donation was $5,000, made by Donald Trump in September 2011. The search also showed he made a second donation for $1,000 to the same campaign in February 2013. Finally, the remaining $2,000 came from Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's elder daughter, in June 2014.
To investigate the legitimacy of the image supposedly showing a photocopied version of the $5,000 check, we compared it with the records available via the California Secretary of State's website. The alleged check was for $5,000, which matched Donald Trump's donation in 2011. The check was dated Sept.
We ran the image through the reverse-image search engine TinEye. Those results showed the image first appeared online on July 31, 2019.
On that date, several outlets including Fox News and the Daily Mail published articles including the image of the alleged $5,000 check. According to the Fox News article, the outlet obtained a copy of the check alongside court records regarding a 2013 ethics complaint into then-
Both Donald and Ivanka Trump reportedly provided sworn affidavits that acknowledged the $5,000 donation to Harris, alleging it was suggested and arranged with help from a Schneiderman aide.
According to 2019 reporting from The Sacramento Bee, which spoke with Harris' campaign spokesperson, her reelection campaign donated the
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