Eliza Collins

USA TODAY

Hillary Clinton's team had some harsh words for Donald Trump following a Washington Post report Tuesday that found he had used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal disputes over his businesses.

“Clearly the Trump Foundation is as much a charitable organization as Trump University is an institute of higher education. Trump’s version of charity is taking money from others to settle his own legal issues and buy at least two pictures of himself, which experts say is a clear violation of laws governing charitable organizations," Clinton spokeswoman Christina Reynolds said in a statement. "Once again, Trump has proven himself a fraud who believes the rules don’t apply to him. It’s past time for him to release his tax returns to show whether his tax issues extend to his own personal finances.”

The Post found that Trump resolved $120,000 in unpaid fines over an oversized flagpole at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., by donating $100,000 to a veterans charity — but that check came from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, not Trump himself.

He also settled a lawsuit at one of his New York golf courses by donating $158,000 to a charity of the plaintiff's choosing, according to the report, money also came from the Trump Foundation.

The Post story Tuesday follows a series of findings about the foundation, including that a $25,000 campaign donation had been paid to the attorney general of Florida in 2013 around the time that she was considering investigating Trump University. She never went through with the investigation, and Trump was later fined for using his foundation to donate to a political campaign. Attorney General Pam Bondi Tuesday denied any wrongdoing in accepting the donation.

The attorney general of New York has opened an investigation into the foundation as well.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.