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Trump, Inc.

And Now, The End Is Near

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

Don, Trump, News, Business, Jared, Ivanka, Jr, Politics, Business News, Government, Eric

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This story was co-published with ProPublica. A birth certificate, a bar receipt, a newspaper ad, a board game, a Ziploc bag of shredded paper, a pair of museum tickets, some checks, and a USB drive. The series finale of Trump, Inc. This episode was reported by Andrea Bernstein, Meg Cramer, Anjali Kamat, Ilya Marritz, Katherine Sullivan, Eric Umansky, and Heather Vogell. We assembled our time capsule at Donald J. Trump State Park; it will be stored until 2031 with WNYC's archives department. Trump, Inc. is produced by WNYC Studios and ProPublica. This is the last episode of Trump, Inc. But it's not the end of our reporting: subscribe to our newsletter for updates on what we're doing next. Show your support with a donation to New York Public Radio.

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0:00.0

Hello, Trump and listeners, it's Oli Amaritz.

0:04.0

And I'm Andrea Bernstein.

0:05.8

Years ago, back before the Trump presidency, Andrea and I both sat in the WNYC newsroom.

0:12.0

Andrea covered money, power, and influence.

0:14.3

I was a business reporter.

0:16.2

We reported on the figures who shaped the government and economy of New York, New Jersey,

0:20.8

and the United States.

0:22.3

In one Donald Trump became president.

0:24.8

We started reporting on the intersection of business and politics in a whole new way,

0:30.6

by looking at the conflicts of interests at the center of the Trump presidency.

0:35.2

WNYC teamed up with ProPublica, reporting first with the New Yorker, and then as Trump

0:41.0

Inc.

0:42.0

Over the past few years, we've looked at how Donald Trump used the presidency to benefit

0:46.2

his business, his family, and himself.

0:49.0

We dug into the ways President Trump has avoided paying taxes.

0:53.2

We looked at how his properties profited from spending by his government and the president's

0:58.2

supporters.

0:59.2

We looked at how the president's team abused power at home in abroad.

1:03.2

And most recently, we looked hard at both the elections process and the government's

1:08.4

haphazard response to the coronavirus.

1:11.1

We sent reporters to Trump properties across the United States, and we followed this story

1:15.6

around the globe, to India, to Panama.

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