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Trump, Inc.

What We’ve Learned From Trump’s Tax Transcripts

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A look at Trump’s tax data from his early years gives us a road map of what his current forms might tell us.

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0:00.0

Hey!

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How are you?

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Good.

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No one's to see you.

0:05.0

Great job.

0:06.0

Thank you.

0:07.0

This is Suzanne Craig of The New York Times.

0:11.0

I spoke to you twice in the last two weeks and you get nothing?

0:14.0

No, hand.

0:15.0

Sue, with her colleague Ross Butner, just did another story in their blockbuster series based

0:22.4

on Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump's tax returns.

0:26.2

This one showed how Donald Trump claimed over a billion dollars in business losses from

0:31.2

1985 to 1994.

0:34.3

That means he claimed more money in losses, beginning even earlier in his career than we previously

0:40.5

realized.

0:41.5

Also, Sue and Russ found, in some years, Donald Trump lost more money than any American

0:47.5

taxpayer.

0:48.5

In 1990 and 1991, he claimed losses of $250 million, more than twice the amount of the tax

0:56.8

payers who lost the second biggest amounts.

1:01.8

Hello and welcome to this Trump Inc. podcast extra.

1:05.0

I'm Andrea Bernstein.

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We thought you'd like to hear from Suzanne Craig about how she got the story and what she

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