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🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Michael Popok, Legal AF reporting on breaking news concerning the tax returns of Donald Trump |
0:05.6 | that have now been disclosed to the American people in a transparent fashion. |
0:09.7 | Buried within there is the establishment of the close ties between Donald Trump and China, |
0:15.9 | and the Chinese government and his payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in Chinese taxes. |
0:21.9 | At the same time, he and Melania paid $750 worth of taxes to the US government. |
0:29.4 | You heard it here. $220,000 or so in taxes paid to China at the same time that Melania and Donald, |
0:37.1 | the patriots that they are, paid $750 in total federal taxes to Washington. |
0:44.8 | The links between Donald Trump and China have been well reported, including by the New York Times |
0:50.3 | and other outlets in 2020. What we learned from the revelation of those tax returns now confirmed |
0:56.6 | in the tax returns from yesterday is that Donald Trump, through his entities, including the hotel |
1:02.6 | development arm, the Trump International Hotel Licensing Arm of his empire, tried to build residential |
1:11.4 | towers and office towers with the approval of the Chinese government, which has to happen |
1:17.0 | in that communist country, and likely payoffs that go along without including giving |
1:23.2 | high-ranking Chinese officials apartments and pen house apartments that reduced or no value, |
1:29.2 | but he was trying to do that business through these arms throughout 2015 and 2016 before he became |
1:38.3 | officially candidate Trump in striking these licensing deals or attempting to with the Chinese |
1:44.9 | government. He also attempted to curry favor with the Chinese government with the premiere of China |
1:53.6 | by selling at a reduced value a pen house apartment in the states that he owned to somebody who |
2:01.8 | was highly connected with and an affiliate of the Chinese government, Zhao Yanchen, bought an |
2:09.8 | apartment for a pen house apartment for about $16 million, resulting in a $15 million profit |
2:17.4 | that went back to Donald Trump when he withdrew $15 million from the capital account of the hotel |
2:23.7 | organization. So you have the sale by Donald Trump to curry favor with the Chinese government |
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