if the democrats take control of the house and senate, we ll see them within a year. wow. wow. david cay johnston, thank you very much. as backlash erupts against the president for mocking, some say he was just stating facts. and senator ted cruz versus o roarke coming up. your digestive system has billions of bacteria but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try new align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health.
loan in 1955 and i built it into something big with lots of assets. i say that because that s what this country needs. there are so many lies there we could have a whole hour show on it. take your time, david. the single biggest grasp the country hasn t grasped, donald the candidate told everyone he was worth 10 billion. he is actually worth 4 billion. i shout and others have that the financial statement he filed is grossly misleading. it overstates assets left and right. he is not required, as he himself said in 2015, to report all of his debts. there is not now and there never has been a scintilla of verifiable evidence that donald trump is or ever was a billionaire. he s not a businessman.
he s a cash extractor. his father made a fortune. donald has been spending it, sucking money out of deals, leaving businesses in the wake where workers are unemployed and is leaving country without permission. vendors aren t paid, their businesses are sometimes destroyed. and the only known case of cheating a customer at a casino in atlantic city was at trump s castle. david, all of this are included in all the reasons i believe donald trump would never run for president, because i believed all of this would come out. it s coming out a lot slower than i had expected and hoped it would, i guess. david k. johnston, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. we have some breaking news tonight. the latest about the kavanaugh fbi investigation next.
they even cheated poor people. they quote testimony by robert trump about how they inflated the prices paid for refrigerators and stoves in rent controlled apartments and marked it up so that they could cheat poor people by making them pay more in rent. you can dislike rent control laws, but there s no moral person who steals from the poor. but the trumps see nothing wrong with this. and these deals are egregiously large in their size. in some cases they told the tax authorities that properties were valued at 6% of their actual value, 6%. 94% discount. and, david, what are the possible criminal implications that the new york state attorney general could be looking at here? well, criminal charges from the data in the new york times are not likely. there is a six year statute of limitations both federal and state. there are some exceptions, but i don t think we re going to see that. there is no, however, statute of
business ventures to avoid defaulting on his debts. cnbc has learned that new york state tax officials are now investigating the fraud allegations made in this the new york times report. joining our discussion now, david k. johnston, author of the making of donald trump, and pulitzer prize winning journalist who founded d.c. report.org. david, this takes you back to your days as a new york times tax reporter. this is the kind of forensic work you ve done before. what do you make of the times report? what do you think are the most damaging elements of it? this is a masterful piece where over 100,000 documents were somehow obtained by the times. now, they re not current. they re mostly from the 70s, 80s and 90s. but what they show is that donald trump is a serial tax cheat. under the law if you do something one time it s not a crime. but they did it over and over and over and over again.