Nobody Wants To Work With The Trumps Anymore

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and an unprecedented second impeachment, a growing number of businesses, governments, and financial institutions are severing ties with President Trump. David Fahrenthold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers the Trump family and its business interests for The Washington Post. Zach Everson reports on who patronizes the Trump family businesses for the newsletter 1100 Pennsylvania. Next week's Trump, Inc. will be the final episode of the series. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on what we're doing next. Show your support with a donation to New York Public Radio.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Andrea.
0:03.0	And Ilya.
0:04.2	And before we get started, we have some news to share with you.
0:08.2	We began Trump Inc. early in the Trump presidency.
0:11.7	And now that it's ending, we wanted to let you know that the series is coming to a close.
0:15.9	We'll be releasing our final episode next week before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration
0:21.3	as president.
0:23.1	We began our work reporting on Donald Trump's family business and his associates before
0:28.4	this podcast began.
0:30.3	We were journalists covering business and politics in New York and New Jersey for the
0:34.8	WNYC Newsroom.
0:36.8	After Donald Trump was elected, Ilya and I went out from our guerrillas and to brainstorm.
0:42.4	We wanted to bring our knowledge of the New York City region to bear on the new president
0:47.7	and his business.
0:48.7	And we knew we had a good base to start.
0:51.2	We also knew we'd need reporting partners.
0:54.0	So we started working with our now colleagues from ProPublica.
0:57.8	Their office was just a few blocks away from our own and right in between was the Trump
1:02.3	Soho Hotel.
1:03.7	Our first big collaboration with ProPublica was about Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.'s roles
1:09.8	in marketing that hotel.
1:11.4	It became a story for the New Yorker.
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