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This is what you can call “Excellence in Reporting” … although the fake-tweeting resident of the White House would probably call it something else ... (especially considering the ‘Outright Fraud’ can’t ‘Outright Obstruct’ the American People from reading it. Dooh!)
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Reporters at The New York Times won the Pulitzer for explanatory reporting for their investigation into Trump's finances, which revealed that Trump and his family allegedly engaged in tax dodging.
The Times investigation found that Trump's parents allegedly transferred more than $1 billion to their children and that the family paid $52.2 million in taxes, a rate of roughly 5 percent.
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thehill.com
Here’s a contemporary summary of that NYT Investigative report, by CNBC ...
President Donald Trump committed “instances of outright fraud” as he helped his parents dodge taxes and boost the money he got from them, according to a detailed New York Times investigation published Tuesday.
The president received today’s equivalent of $413 million from the real estate holdings of his father, Fred Trump, the newspaper reported, citing a “vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records.” The findings contrast with the story Trump has always told about himself — that he built up wealth and success after only getting a small loan from his father.
Trump and his siblings in part “set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents,” according to the Times. The article notes that tax experts say the president would be unlikely to face criminal charges related to the conduct because of how much time has passed since much of it took place in the 1990s.
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Here’s that NYT Investigative report itself, from the original source ...
Oct 2, 2018 - “The New York Times's allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and ... But The Times's investigation of the Trump family's finances is ... Of course, the story of how Donald Trump got rich cannot be reduced to …
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Even if we never get to see the fake president’s
Tax Returns —
we can gauge how much of a Fraudster he really is, by what is
already in the public record.
Congrats to David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner for doing what Reporters do best — shining a light into those hidden places, that our shadowy Fraudsters/Leaders would rather, not ever have us see ...
There are many many ‘dubious’ reasons — why Trump is trying to bury his Tax Returns.
Many thanks to the Reporters who have managed to put a spot-light on some of them.
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