Donald Trump has a simple reason for his long delay in explaining what happened to the money he raised for veterans’ charities: He didn’t want any publicity.
“Because I wanted to make this out of the goodness of my heart,” he told a news conference in which he castigated reporters for forcing him to provide details.
Of all conceivable explanations, “too self-effacing” ranks somewhere below “temporarily kidnapped by space aliens.” Let’s look elsewhere. The best possibilities seem to be:
A) Cheapness.
B) Tendency to make things up.