Thursday, October 04, 2018
Pattern of Deception
Inherited fortune and tax fraud made Donald Trump a wealthy man. As the New York Times special investigation, Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father, notes, The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
