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“I just wish there was as much interest in the activities of the Clinton Foundation,” Mike Pence said. | AP Photo

Pence deflects on Trump Foundation questions

Mike Pence agreed that questions about the Trump Foundation’s questionable spending are “fair game” and said incorrectly that the Trump family and its charity had already answered “all the questions” that have been raised in a series of investigations by the Washington Post.

When Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace noted that they had not, in fact, answered any of the Post's questions, Pence hesitated and then dodged: “I just wish there was as much interest in the activities of the Clinton Foundation,” he said, when Wallace asked him about a payment the Trump Foundation made to settle a legal claim against Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in Florida.

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“The Washington Post reporting on this has been very, very sketchy. They’ve been found to be factually incorrect on a number of bases,” Pence said.

But the Trump campaign has not publicly identified any flaws in the Post’s reporting, which have identified more than $250,000 in payments from the Trump Foundation to settle legal claims and discovered that Trump hadn’t contributed to his own Foundation since 2008.