Taxes. Taxes w/Forbes' Trump Reporter, Dan Alexander
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Bill digs into the Times' Trump Tax story with Forbes Senior Editor Dan Alexander. He leads the magazine’s coverage of Donald Trump. Twice a year, Alexander is responsible for putting together Forbes’ estimate of Donald Trump’s net worth. Spoiler alert: It's not $10 Billion. He is also the author of the great new book, White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business, an exposé that details Trump’s efforts to make money off of politics. You can buy it here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to the Bill Press 5. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, for five years, Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns, the first |
| 0:14.0 | president since the 1970s to do so, and now we know why. |
| 0:19.0 | In news that hit the 2020 campaign like a hurricane, |
| 0:22.4 | the New York Times reports that Donald Trump is a big tax cheap. |
| 0:26.9 | In 10 of the last 15 years, he paid absolutely no taxes, zero. |
| 0:32.8 | And in 2016, as a candidate for president, and 2017, his first year as president, he paid a total of |
| 0:40.1 | $750 less than the waitress in your restaurant pays or the clerk who checks you out at the |
| 0:47.5 | grocery store. The New York Times story also comes on the heels of a bombshell new book called |
| 0:53.8 | White House Inc. by Forbes senior |
| 0:57.3 | editor Dan Alexander, which unmasks Donald Trump as a colossal failure as a businessman. |
| 1:04.6 | He lies about how much his properties are worth, lies about how much revenue they generate, |
| 1:09.9 | lies about how rich he is, all the while continuing to |
| 1:13.9 | make money from and to promote the Trump brand while serving as president. |
| 1:19.6 | Dan Alexander joins us to talk today about how Donald Trump turned the presidency into a business. |
| 1:26.6 | Dan Alexander, good to catch up with you. Thanks so much |
| 1:28.7 | for joining us on the Bill Press pod. Thanks for having me. So back in 2000, one of the several |
| 1:35.5 | times that Donald Trump thought about running for president before he actually did, he made the |
| 1:40.0 | comment that he could be the first person to run for president and actually make money at it. |
| 1:46.6 | Your book, let me just say, by the way, your book is one of the most thoroughly, carefully |
| 1:52.8 | researched books and just stock full of facts that I have ever read. So, thank you. |
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