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Trump, Inc.

The Family Business (rerun)

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Trump, Inc. was originally released on September 18, 2019. We’ll be back next week with a new episode of Trump, Inc. We've done dozens of episodes over since Donald Trump took office, detailing how predatory lenders are paying the president, how Trump has profited from his own inauguration and how Trump's friends have sought to use their access in pursuit of profit.  We've noticed something along the way. It's not just that the president has mixed his business and governing. It's that the way Trump does business is spreading across the government.  Trump's company isn't like most big businesses. It is accountable to only one man, it has broken the rules, and those promoting it have long engaged in what Trump has dubbed, ahem, "truthful hyperbole." Those traits are now popping up in the government. It may seem like the news from Washington is a cacophony of scandals. But they fit clear patterns — patterns that Trump has brought with him from his business.

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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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