Tale of Two Cities: Trump's helps Trumps While the Clintons' Is the Real Deal The Daily Beast

Since 2001, Trump has given $3.8 million to charities, the very limited public record on his giving shows. That includes a recent $1 million gift to a veterans’ charity as part of his campaign to win votes -- and it's not clear that it was actually Trump's money.

Johnson says that Trump claims that over his lifetime, he's given $102 million to charities, but without tax returns he can make up any number he wishes. Work to validate these claims by contacting America's top charities and asking them to document a Trump donation have come up generally empty-handed. And we know that Trump has made almost no contributions to his own Trump Foundation since 2008.

Before commenting on the Clintons' charitable giving, I want to remind people that no only have they made public almost 40 years of tax returns, but they paid income taxes at the highest rates at a federal, state and local level. With all the false claims against the Clintons, they proudly pay their fair share of taxes and no entity has accused them of not doing so. The tax returns don't lie. ~ Anne

Since 2001 the Clintons have given $23.2 million to charity, their income tax returns reveal. The Clintons have released 39 consecutive years of tax returns.

Like Trump, the Clintons give primarily to a foundation bearing the family name, the Clinton Family Foundation.

Trump claims he is worth more than $10 billion. That means his verified gifts since 2001 come to less than four one-hundredths of 1 percent of his claimed wealth. Even if we accept his claim of $102 million—and count it as all being donated since 2001—his total giving would be just 1 percent of his claimed net worth.

The Clintons are worth no more than $62 million, their financial disclosure forms show. Their charitable donations since 2001 come to at least 37.6 percent of their maximum net worth."

Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Donald Trump would be a catastrophe. Los Angeles Times

She stands for rational, comprehensive immigration reform and an improvement rather than an abandonment of the Affordable Care Act. She supports abortion rights, wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour, hopes to reform the sentencing laws that have overcrowded American prisons, would repair the Voting Rights Act and help students to leave college without enormous debt. Abroad she would strengthen America’s traditional alliances, continue the Obama administration’s efforts to “degrade and ultimately defeat” Islamic State and negotiate with potential adversaries such as Russia and China in a way that balances realism and the protection of American interests. Unlike Trump, Clinton accepts the prevailing science on climate change and considers the issue to be “the defining challenge of our time.”

Perhaps her greatest strength is her pragmatism — her ability to build consensus and solve problems. As president, she would be flexible enough and experienced enough to cut across party lines and work productively with her political opponents. As first lady, she worked with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides healthcare coverage to more than 8 million children. As a senator, she was instrumental in persuading a Republican president to deliver billions of dollars in aid to New York after September 11. As secretary of State, she led the charge to persuade nations around the world to impose the tough sanctions on Iran that led to the landmark nuclear agreement, and she negotiated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.