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🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Trump's media-abetted lies about his wealth; the tax preparation cartel; weaponizing FOIA and the "electability" myth.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:04.1	Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
0:06.2	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:07.8	This week in the New York Times, another bombshell report on President Trump's financial
0:13.2	House of Cards, a decade-long period of crushing losses and attacks right off of a staggering
0:19.6	$1 billion.
0:23.6	Their findings are eye-popping, stunning. There's a lot of different adjectives you could use.
0:25.6	Reporters Russ Butener and Suzanne Craig poured over transcripts of Trump's taxes from
0:31.6	1985 to 1994 and found that he had, quote, lost more money than nearly every other individual American taxpayer.
0:40.5	Every year that we looked at, he lost money.
0:43.7	It's unbelievable.
0:45.2	We would have thought at least in one of the years that we saw, maybe the year he wrote art of the deal.
0:50.2	He would have made money.
0:51.1	He didn't.
0:51.6	He was just bleeding money.
0:52.9	This from the swashbuckling dealmaker,
0:55.5	who'd famously become a fixture on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans,
1:00.9	very famously.
1:02.5	He's young.
1:03.6	He has Robert Redford, good looks, he's conservative, and he's rich.
1:07.9	I'm talking about Larry King's guest, Donald Trump.
1:10.6	The guest has enough money to give everyone in the audience tonight a million dollars. Yes! and he's rich. I'm talking about Larry King's guest Donald Trump.
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