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The Big Debt

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Bloomberg's Caleb Melby about Jared Kushner, the Kushner Company, and the mounting debt at their building – 666 Fifth Ave. Read Caleb's story "Kushners' China Deal Flop Was Part of a Much Bigger Hunt for Cash" by clicking here. Do you have a question for us? Send us a tweet @realTrumpcast or use the #AskTrumpcast hashtag. You can also leave us a voice message at: (646)-598-6510. Don’t forget about our live show in Austin, Texas, for the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. We’ll be live from the Texas Union Theatre with special guests Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas. For tickets go to Slate.com/Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So Jared Kushner is 36 years old. He has no formal diplomatic trading with government

0:05.2

experience. If he cannot handle his job, he's a Chinese security clearance and go back

0:10.2

to doing real estate in New York City. Jared Kushner is a real estate developer. He's

0:14.8

36 years old. He has no experience dealing with foreign governments. This is a guy who

0:19.5

negotiates rent.

0:24.7

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who says the United States is

0:29.9

the highest tax nation in the world. Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Oyspur. And that's not

0:36.7

even close to true. The US is 71 out of 191 countries, according to the IMF. Far from

0:44.7

being the highest, the US isn't even highly taxed, we're an extremely low tax country.

0:51.0

What Trump keeps saying and said again today on Twitter on his way to tell more lies in

0:55.2

North Dakota isn't just inaccurate or misleading or a myth or a distortion or a matter of

1:01.1

opinion. Saying the US is the highest tax country is the opposite of what we know and he

1:07.0

knows to be true. It's a deliberate fabrication, a deception, a conscious knowing lie, told

1:13.6

in defiance of an opposition to objective fact. It's fake news, it's fiction, it's

1:20.8

a fraud, it's an invention, it's total baloney. But Trump keeps repeating it. So what do

1:27.4

we do about it? Honestly, I don't know, because unlike some liars, Donald Trump is impervious

1:33.0

to the truth. He doesn't care when his lies are called out. He just keeps spreading them.

1:38.3

There are other dishonest people in politics. There's no one else as shameless as Donald

1:43.1

Trump. But one thing we can do is to stop letting him go on it. Trump told this lie again

1:50.2

in an interview with Gerald Baker, the editor of the Wall Street Journal in July. Baker

1:54.8

let it slide. And here's one of the headlines about Trump's tweet today from CNBC. Trump

2:01.0

calls America the highest tax nation in the world. Here's how the US actually compares.

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