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ABC News’s chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, acknowledged Thursday that he had made donations to the Clinton Foundation in recent years without disclosing those contributions to his employer — even as he reported on the Clintons and their foundation.

Mr. Stephanopoulos said he should have disclosed the donations to ABC and to his viewers. His gifts to the foundation of at least $50,000 were first reported Thursday morning by Politico.

“I made charitable donations to the foundation in support of the work they’re doing on global AIDS prevention and deforestation, causes I care about deeply,” he said in the statement. “I thought that my contributions were a matter of public record. However, in hindsight, I should have taken the extra step of personally disclosing my donations to my employer and to the viewers on air during the recent news stories about the foundation. I apologize.”

Mr. Stephanopoulos has a history with the Clintons, having been a close adviser on Bill Clinton’s successful run for president in 1992 and serving as communications director among other roles in the Clinton White House.

On April 26 on “This Week,” Mr. Stephanopoulos interviewed Peter Schweizer, the author of “Clinton Cash,” a book highly critical of the foundation and the donations it received from foreign entities, and took issue with the book’s contention that Hillary Rodham Clinton may have committed a crime because of the links it tried to connect between donations to the foundation and her work as secretary of state.

Mr. Stephanopoulos’s support of the Clinton Foundation was indeed disclosed by the organization itself. According to figures from NOZA, a database of charitable donations that use publicly available information, the Clinton Foundation in 2012 listed Mr. Stephanopoulos as a donor in the $10,001-to-$25,000 range. In 2013, he was listed among donors who cumulatively gave between $25,001-$50,000. And for 2014, he was listed as having given in the $50,001-to-$100,000 range cumulatively.

Politico reported that in both 2013 and 2014, Mr. Stephanopoulos made $25,000 donations to the foundation, which he did not disclose to the network or viewers.

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Stephanopoulos gave other donations to the foundation or if the foundation had assigned him to the wrong financial range.

In a statement, ABC said that Mr. Stephanopoulos made an “honest mistake.”

“As George has said, he made charitable donations to the foundation to support a cause he cares about deeply and believed his contributions were a matter of public record,” the statement said. “He should have taken the extra step to notify us and our viewers during the recent news reports about the foundation. He’s admitted to an honest mistake and apologized for that omission. We stand behind him.”