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Today, Explained

Trump v. Taxes

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Supreme Court will decide whether President Trump has to turn over his tax returns, but WNYC's Andrea Bernstein says the Court is really deciding whether Trump can literally get away with murder. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Andrea Bernstein, co-host of the Trump Inc podcast from WNYC in ProPublica on Friday

0:17.2

night, the Supreme Court announced it would hear not one, not two, but three cases on

0:22.9

the president's tax returns.

0:25.3

What are these three cases?

0:27.2

So there are two cases that stem from congressional subpoenas that Trump sued so as not to have

0:37.2

his tax returns turned over.

0:39.5

And those are Trump v. Meizards and Trump v. Deutsche Bank.

0:42.4

Yes.

0:43.4

And the third case is the Manhattan District Attorney.

0:46.6

And this case arises from an investigation into Trump's business that came from the

0:53.4

Stormy Daniels case.

0:55.5

A piece of it got sent to the Manhattan DA, the Manhattan DA began investigating requested

1:00.7

Trump's tax returns.

1:02.2

And at that point, Trump sued the DA.

1:04.2

So that's the third case, Trump v.

1:06.1

And I guess this story begins during the 2016 campaign when candidate Trump breaks

1:11.9

with tradition and refuses to release his tax returns.

1:16.4

How rich is this tradition of sharing your financial information?

1:20.6

Every president in modern history has released his tax return to the public.

1:25.6

Remind us why?

1:27.4

Because it's important for people to understand whether the president is acting in his or her

1:32.8

own interests or in the country's interests.

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