An Ongoing Look Into the Origins of Trump’s Wealth

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today, we return to a New York Times investigation into Fred and Donald Trump’s taxes. After spending much of the past year poring over never-before-seen documents, our colleagues unearthed new information about the president’s financial history that contradict his story of being a self-made billionaire. Guests: David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, investigative reporters for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:31.5	This week, we're revisiting our favorite episodes of the year, listening back, and then
0:36.3	hearing what's happened in the time since the first round.
0:39.6	Today, we return to an investigation into Fred and Donald Trump's taxes.
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1:05.2	These are thousands of property records, deeds, and mortgages and transfers on every property
1:11.0	ever owned going back for 60 years.
1:13.4	We've got all these buildings here.
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