"Corruption Is Our Achilles Heel"

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Simpson has a lot to say about business corruption and Russian influence in the U.S. In this episode, we speak to him. Simpson first came to these issues as an investigative journalist at The Wall Street Journal. In 2010, he co-founded Fusion GPS, a research firm. During the 2016 campaign, he began to research Donald Trump for two clients: first for a Republican opposed to Trump and then for a lawyer for Democrats. Fusion is most famous — or infamous — for hiring Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the so-called Steele dossier. We asked Simpson about the dossier, about becoming a part of the story, and about the deposition of former national security aide Fiona Hill, who said that when it comes to Russia, "corruption is our Achilles heel." Simpson is now the author, with Peter Fritsch, of the new book, "Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump."

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0:00.0	Previously on Trump Inc.
0:03.0	Yeah, I think that's a fair question.
0:05.0	We sat around one night, we were back in the dining room,
0:07.0	and I'm going over it with a couple of our vanstries,
0:09.0	and we had the list, and he goes, what about Dural?
0:11.0	And I was like, that's not the craziest idea.
0:14.0	It makes perfect sense.
0:15.0	This is the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.
0:19.0	He was speaking in October to announce the White House
0:22.0	had selected the Trump National Golf Course in Dural,
0:25.0	near Miami, for the side of next summer's G7 summit.
0:30.0	The Dural, he said, was far and away the best location.
0:34.0	The advanced people had come back from their scouting
0:37.0	and told him, Mick, you're not going to believe this,
0:39.0	but it's almost like they built this facility
0:41.0	to host this type of event.
0:43.0	The White House was announcing it was going to pay
0:45.0	the president's own business to host an international summit.
0:49.0	At the same press conference, Mulvaney made
0:53.0	another startling proclamation.
0:55.0	Did he also mention, to me, in past,
0:57.0	the corruption related to the DNC server?
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