As legal water gets hotter, Trump takes the Fifth with New York attorney general
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
4.4 • 35.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've got a big show for you tonight as we continue to learn new information about |
| 0:03.4 | the FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida home. |
| 0:07.5 | Trump World has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former president's orbit |
| 0:13.0 | might have talked to the FBI and what it could mean for the investigation. |
| 0:16.0 | We'll have more on that later, but let's go back in time a little to 2005. |
| 0:21.8 | More than a decade before Donald Trump's first run for president, before he started |
| 0:26.0 | flirting with racist birtheurism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy with |
| 0:31.9 | a funny hairdo and a reality TV show, that year the intrepid journalist Tim O'Brien, |
| 0:37.8 | the guy on the left, decided to start digging into the so-called Trump empire. |
| 0:43.5 | What he found then probably wouldn't shock anyone today, but back then it was a big deal. |
| 0:49.2 | Tim O'Brien discovered that Donald Trump's much-lawed business success was actually far |
| 0:54.6 | less impressive than Trump had led anyone to believe. |
| 0:58.5 | He found that Donald Trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollars, |
| 1:04.7 | that he wasn't remotely close to being a billionaire. |
| 1:07.2 | And so in 2005, Tim O'Brien wrote a book exposing Donald Trump's prolific lies and exaggerations |
| 1:14.6 | about his wealth. |
| 1:16.5 | Donald Trump reported by suing Tim O'Brien for defamation a year later, and that's how |
| 1:20.1 | we got to see what it's like when Donald Trump testifies under oath, quoting from the |
| 1:26.1 | transcript, attorney. |
| 1:27.9 | Mr. Trump, have you always been completely truthful in your public statements about your net |
| 1:32.2 | worth of properties? |
| 1:34.1 | Trump, I try. |
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