take the pledge

“I’m going to take the pledge just as seriously as Donald Trump took it in 2016,” he said, adding that he considered it “useless” and had told the R.N.C. as much.

“I saw all the billionaires who were taking the pledge to give their fortunes away,” he says, “and I wanted to take the pledge, too, but when we looked into my finances more closely it turned out that my only value was myself. So I am giving that away. I am going to spend the rest of my years in service to the community.”

“Voters have lost or are losing faith in Washington, and any time someone breaks that kind of pledge, it undermines that faith even further,” said Adam Bozzi, spokesman for End Citizens United, the public-interest organization opposed to corporate influence in federal politics that has asked candidates to take the pledge rejecting corporate PAC money.

“Will you take the pledge? Yes or no?”

As a starting point, funders who take the pledge commit to disclosing within one month the percentage of their climate giving that is currently directed to such groups.