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Today, Explained

Take a penny, take a penny

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

New York investigators are turning up the heat on the Trump Foundation this summer. The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold shares a series of increasingly unbelievable stories about the organization’s shenanigans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Books are great, but when was the last time you listened to one?

0:04.1

Right now you can get $10 off your first purchase of an audiobook over $10.

0:09.1

When you visit g.co-play-explained and log in with your Google account.

0:23.3

Most reporting and politics and otherwise, you get a lot of tips and most tips don't pan

0:28.5

out.

0:29.5

You check something out and it turns out that the person who gave you the tip didn't really

0:32.4

understand the full details of the situation or what you thought was really illegal is

0:36.1

actually quite legal and very common.

0:37.6

There's all kinds of reasons why tips don't pan out.

0:40.1

That's just part of reporting is you chase down a lot of leads that don't go anywhere.

0:44.1

The Trump Foundation reporting was different because the success rate was like 100%.

0:54.7

Every time somebody called with a crazy story about something that happened or every

0:58.8

time you found something weird that looked strange in the documents, every time you thought

1:04.0

there was something there there was.

1:05.6

Every rocky turn over there was something underneath it that was sort of newsworthy and

1:08.9

worth calling about.

1:10.4

I've never had that kind of experience before.

1:13.6

A person called me one time out of the blue and said that they knew this story from the

1:20.4

mid-90s where Trump had once barged into somebody else's charity event and stolen a seat

1:26.7

on the stage and sat on the stage as if he had given the charity money during a charity

1:31.2

event even though he'd given them nothing.

1:33.1

I thought of the time let's ridiculous.

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