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The Daily

An Ongoing Look Into the Origins of Trump’s Wealth

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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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Hey, it's Michael.

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This week, we're revisiting our favorite episodes of the year, listening back, and then

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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.

0:44.7

You have to swear it, I'm glad before you're allowed in.

0:48.8

Okay.

0:49.8

It has not been cleaned since we took it over.

1:00.8

Can you just kind of walk me through the piles a little bit?

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.

1:15.7

Here's the house that you own.

1:17.6

This is an aerial photograph of one of the buildings I assume.

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Let's go.

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Then there's bank statements, tax returns, detailed accounting records where we can follow

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