The Family Business (rerun)
Trump, Inc.
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Trump Inc. listeners. |
| 0:03.6 | It's Ilya in beautiful sunny South Florida where I am actually standing right beneath |
| 0:08.8 | a palm tree and I'm here to do some reporting for this show. |
| 0:13.6 | We're going to have a brand new episode next week. |
| 0:16.2 | In the meantime, we wanted to bring you one of our favorite shows from last year. |
| 0:20.3 | It's called The Family Business and it's all about how Donald Trump took his style of |
| 0:25.2 | doing business into the White House. |
| 0:28.0 | Here it is. |
| 0:29.0 | Hope you like it. |
| 0:36.0 | The White House isn't big enough to hold the staff that make the executive office run. |
| 0:40.7 | So across the way through an underground tunnel, there's an office building where a lot of |
| 0:45.2 | the work happens, like preserving presidential records. |
| 0:49.7 | His thing was he didn't care what records was. |
| 0:54.4 | He frequently tore up memos or things and just threw them in his trash. |
| 0:59.9 | This is Solomon Larte, a records management analyst under four U.S. presidents, Clinton, |
| 1:05.4 | Bush, Obama, and Trump. |
| 1:07.6 | So it took somebody from the White House staff to tell him like, look, you can't do that |
| 1:11.7 | because everything is a presidential record. |
| 1:15.2 | And I don't think he understood that. |
| 1:17.2 | In the beginning, I don't know if he understands it now, but that's what it was. |
| 1:21.7 | The law says every piece of paper that passes the president's desk must be preserved. |
| 1:26.7 | Anything that comes in there from a lawsuit, like I said, from a kid right in a letter to |
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