Donald Trump is lashing out at the news media for trying to account for the millions of dollars that Trump said he had given to veterans' groups following a fundraiser earlier this year.

He's now listed 41 groups that he says have received all of the money he raised.

But about a dozen of those groups -- half the number who've responded to phone calls today from The Associated Press -- say they received checks from Trump just within the past week. The checks were typically dated May 24th. And that was the day The Washington Post ran a story questioning whether Trump had actually distributed all of the money.

Trump told reporters at a testy news conference in New York that the fundraiser, held at the same time as a Fox News GOP debate he was boycotting, raised $5.6 million. He previously had declined to disclose which charities had received the funds, and his campaign has gone back and forth about how much was raised.

He repeatedly criticized the press for making the money an issue, saying reporters "should be ashamed of themselves" for asking where the money had gone. He slammed the media as "unbelievably dishonest" and "sleazy" for its treatment of the issue.

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