Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action

prius04 July 20, 2019, 12:29am 18

Wasn’t it Donald Trump who perfected the technique of making generous promises to charities and then never forking over the money?

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