NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen big checks flowed out of New York last week, bound for veterans' charities from Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, he announced he had made good on his promise of last January to give the groups millions of dollars from a highly publicized fundraiser ( to avoid another lashing from Megyn Kelly)

The announcement by the presumptive Republican presidential candidate came in the midst of a 40-minute rant against "dishonest" and "sleazy" reporters who have been pressing the issue.

(How dare the press question a presidential candidate)

"It was very unfair that the press treated us so badly," Trump complained Tuesday.

He suggested he had hoped to keep the donations private.

(However, Trump hadn't appeared shy about giving away poster-sized checks at campaign events in the weeks after the fundraiser.)

 On Jan. 30, just before the campaign's leadoff caucuses in Iowa, he gave a $100,000 check to the Puppy Jake Foundation, which provides service dogs to wounded veterans. Representatives from the foundation, accompanies by several service dogs, accepted the check at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa, where Trump was being interviewed on stage by Jerry Falwell Jr.

The next day, in Council Bluffs, Trump presented another check, also for $100,000, to Partners for Patriots, which also provides service dogs to disabled veterans.The public presentations trickled off within days, though some of the groups contacted by AP did report receiving checks in February, March and April.

But the biggest batch appeared to have gone out May 24, with several of the groups saying they had no contact with the Trump organization before that.

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