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Skullduggery

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Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Veteran Political Advisor, Strategist, and Consultant Mike Murphy, Veteran Pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, and New York Times Business Investigations Editor David Enrich join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Enrich reacts to the bombshell Trump tax story his paper dropped over the weekend and what the repercussions will be. Then Murphy and Soltis Anderson prepare us for the highly anticipated first Presidential Debate between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.

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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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