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NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump skipped a debate in January and held a fund-raiser instead, claiming to have raised $6 million for veterans.
Now a group of vets is asking: where's the money?
About a dozen rallied outside Trump Tower in New York, charging Trump has been less than forthcoming about what's being done with the money raised. The Trump campaign admitted recently the total was more like four and a-half million.
But the vets' objections to Trump were more than financial.
"Veterans are not Props for hate" read one poster at the rally.
Alexander McCoy, the ex-Marine who organized it, says Trump is a fraud who owes vets an apology.
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192-w-35-(Warren Levinson, AP correspondent, with Alexander McCoy, protest leader)--Veterans claiming broken promises staged a small rally against Donald Trump in New York. AP correspondent Warren Levinson reports. (23 May 2016)
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193-a-12-(Alexander McCoy, protest leader, with reporters)-"that he raised"-Protest leader Alexander McCoy says Donald Trump misled veterans about the proceeds of a January fundraiser. ((cut used in wrap)) (23 May 2016)
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194-a-11-(Alexander McCoy, protest leader, with reporters)-"them as props"-Protest leader Alexander McCoy, an ex-Marine, says Trump's conduct toward vets is offensive. (23 May 2016)
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