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Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It was the mother load that Congress, journalists, and many others have been seeking for years. |
| 0:08.7 | President Trump's tax returns dating back more than two decades. |
| 0:13.1 | And yet on Sunday, the New York Times revealed he'd had them, laying out the tangled finances, |
| 0:19.2 | sketchy practices, and huge debts that have been the hallmark of Trump's business career |
| 0:23.8 | since day one. |
| 0:25.4 | The big headline, of course, is that Trump only paid $750 in federal income taxes, |
| 0:31.6 | the year he was elected president, and the same amount, again, his first year in office. |
| 0:36.9 | What more can be learned from this examination of the records that Trump has fought for years |
| 0:41.3 | to keep secret? |
| 0:42.8 | And one of the stakes for both candidates and tonight's first presidential debate. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll discuss the tax returns with David Enrich, business investigation editor of the |
| 0:51.1 | New York Times, and we'll get at the bake-take from two savvy political consultants, Mike Murphy |
| 0:56.4 | and Kristen Saldis Anderson, on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:01.1 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Trump, well, I'm |
| 1:11.0 | not a crook. |
| 1:12.0 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
| 1:15.1 | My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence |
| 1:19.8 | tell me it is not. |
| 1:20.8 | I did not have sexual relations for that woman. |
| 1:25.2 | There will be no lies. |
| 1:28.0 | We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm Michael Isigov, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News. |
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