Trump and Taxes: The Art of the Dodge
Trump, Inc.
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | New question, new subject. |
| 0:02.0 | Why are you going to release your tax returns? |
| 0:04.0 | Well, we're having them made. They're extremely complicated. |
| 0:08.0 | It's going to take a little while. |
| 0:10.0 | From the moment he entered the race for president, |
| 0:12.0 | the issue of taxes stuck to Donald Trump, |
| 0:14.0 | like gum on the soul of his shoe. |
| 0:16.0 | What's the holdout? |
| 0:18.0 | Well, very big tax returns. |
| 0:20.0 | The biggest I guarantee you this, the biggest ever in the history of what we're doing. |
| 0:24.0 | So it's very complicated stuff, but we'll be releasing them. |
| 0:27.0 | That month after entering the race and offering vague excuses, |
| 0:30.0 | Trump finally gave a concrete reason not to do what every major party presidential nominee has done for decades. |
| 0:37.0 | In a debate, he said he's under audit by the Internal Revenue Service. |
| 0:41.0 | As far as my return, I want to file it, except for many years I've been audited every year, |
| 0:47.0 | 12 years or something like that. |
| 0:49.0 | Every year they audit me. |
| 0:51.0 | Tax experts say it doesn't usually work that way. |
| 0:53.0 | No, I have friends that are very wealthy people. They never get audited. |
| 0:56.0 | I get audited every year. |
| 0:58.0 | I will absolutely give my return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, |
| 1:03.0 | so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously. |
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