Trump, Inc.: The Business of Silence

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🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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

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0:00.0	I'm Bob Garfield. This week, the New York Times published a blockbuster investigative report about Trump family finances, which came to a startling conclusion. Donald Trump and some of his relatives, including his late real estate tycoon father, engaged in fraud to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in inheritance taxes.
0:22.8	It also disproved Trump's claim that he built his empire with no help from his father,
0:28.2	but a single $1 million loan.
0:31.1	This scoop, based largely on leaked tax records,
0:34.9	is vivid evidence of what happens when secrets slip out into the world.
0:40.5	Trump and his associates, of course, have tried very hard to keep those secrets closely held.
0:45.8	The podcast, Trump, Inc., co-produced by ProPublica and our producing station WNYC, has spent a year
0:54.0	untangling the president's finances,
0:56.4	and in the latest episode from Season 2, documents the Trumpian process for buying and enforcing silence.
1:03.6	In particular, as discussed with the New Yorkers Ronan Farrow, non-disclosure agreements, and the tactic called catch and kill, which requires
1:13.4	Confederates in the media. Here's WNYC's Andrea Bernstein.
1:18.5	We're on the record. This is the video take deposition of Donald Trump taking in the case.
1:23.9	In 2010, Donald Trump sits down for a deposition in a law office in Midtown Manhattan.
1:29.5	He's being sued by buyers in a Trump-branded building.
1:32.8	The topic of secrecy comes up.
1:35.4	Confidentiality is very important because I don't want my competitors to know my deals.
1:38.9	I don't want them to see what deal I'm making in Tampa, what deal I'm making in Panama,
1:43.0	what deal I'm making in New York, what deal I'm making throughout the, what deal I'm making in Panama, what deal I'm making in New York,
1:44.7	what deal I'm making throughout the world. So we have confidentiality in many of our deals,
1:50.7	if not all. I mean, you'd have to ask about... As we've all come to learn, Donald Trump
1:54.6	cares a lot about confidentiality, in his business deals, in his political life, and with women.
2:02.2	You've heard of Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor who says she had an affair with Trump.
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