Lawfare Archive: Trump's Money and National Security
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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From September 30, 2020: On Sunday, September 27, the New York Times dropped bombshell new reporting on nearly two decades of Donald Trump's tax return data. The story has attracted enormous attention and paints a dismal picture. Donald Trump paid no personal income taxes for 11 of the past 18 years, he uses tax deductions aggressively, and last year he paid only $750 in federal income tax. So, is this a story of a president merely in massive debt, or is there something more sinister at play? To whom does the president owe all this money? And what are the national security risks of the president being in this sort of financial position? To try to break it all down, Susan Hennessey sat down with Margaret Taylor, formerly a fellow at Brookings and senior editor at Lawfare; Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the author of "The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency"; and Adam Davidson, a contributing writer to The New Yorker who has written extensively on Trump's financial entanglements.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for December 17, 2022. |
| 0:46.0 | On November 22, 2022, the Supreme Court rejected former president Donald Trump's latest attempt |
| 0:52.6 | to block Congress from obtaining six years of his tax returns. |
| 0:56.3 | Now, the House Ways and Means Committee has to wrestle with whether or not they'll make |
| 1:00.3 | the tax returns public. |
| 1:02.2 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from September 2020. |
| 1:06.9 | In the episode, Susan Hennessy sat down with Margaret Taylor, Daniel Dresner, and Adam Davidson |
| 1:12.4 | to discuss the New York Times reporting from September 2020 on nearly two decades of the |
| 1:18.0 | former president's tax return data. |
| 1:20.2 | They discussed the amount of debt held by the former president, to whom he owes the debt, |
| 1:24.4 | and the national security risks of a president being in that financial position. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm Susan Hennessy, and this is the LawFair podcast September 30, 2020. |
| 1:43.0 | On Sunday, September 27, the New York Times dropped bombshell new reporting on nearly |
| 1:47.5 | two decades of Donald Trump's tax return data. |
| 1:50.9 | The story has attracted enormous attention and paints a dismal picture. |
| 1:55.0 | Donald Trump paid no personal income taxes for 11 of the past 18 years. |
| 1:59.8 | He uses tax deductions aggressively, and last year he paid a whopping $750 in federal income |
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