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Trump, Inc.

The Business of Silence

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Trump has long worked to enforce silence. And he’s been trying to take the practice to the White House.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're on the record.

0:02.0

This day is the video take up position of Donald Trump taking in the case.

0:06.0

In 2010, Donald Trump sits down for a deposition in a law office in Midtown Manhattan.

0:12.0

He's being sued by buyers in a Trump-branded building.

0:15.0

The topic of secrecy comes up.

0:17.0

Confidential is very important because I don't want my competitors to know my deals.

0:21.0

I don't want them to see what deal I'm making in Tampa, what deal I'm making in Panama,

0:25.0

what deal I'm making in New York, what deal I'm making throughout the world.

0:29.0

So we have confidentiality in many of our deals.

0:33.0

If not all, I mean you'd have to ask about it.

0:35.0

As we've all come to learn, Donald Trump cares a lot about confidentiality in his business deals,

0:41.0

in his political life, and with women.

0:44.0

You've heard of Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor who says she had an affair with Trump.

0:49.0

As the 2016 campaign drew to a close, she was paid to keep quiet.

0:54.0

He said that it was great. He had a great evening and it was nothing like he expected that I really surprised him.

0:59.0

Earlier this year, Stormy Daniels decided to speak to 60 minutes.

1:02.0

According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump personally directed the legal response to Stormy Daniels.

1:08.0

He even got his business and his son Eric involved.

1:11.0

The message, if you don't keep his secrets, he'll make you pay.

1:16.0

This applies to a lot of people who work for Trump in some capacity,

1:20.0

including people who didn't allege intimate relationships.

1:23.0

Like Jessica Denson, who worked on his campaign.

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