she was a holder of a green card but she was not a citizen. she didn t get her citizenship until 2006. if you go to the u.s. customs and immigration service page about how to prepare, u.s. customs and immigration advises you that your tax returns are very important proof that you are eligible for naturalization meaning proof that you re eligible for becoming a citizen on the day of your interview, bring certified tax returns for the last five years or three years if you are married to a u.s. citizen. so when melania trump went for her citizenship interview in 2006 he would have had to bring tax returns, including from this first year when she was married to donald trump and that tax return would be used as a very important piece of evidence as to whether or not she should get citizenship so you better believe the 2005 tax return is going to be sterling, right? that it s going to display excellent citizenship and no red flags whatsoever.
trump. tonight i m able to explain a little bit more about how we got thatdocument. to show you last night but i can show you tonight. this is the envelope. this is the envelope the tax return arrived in. you might remember when the new york times obtained a few pages of state tax returns from trump from the 1990s, those paris jacksons were mailed to the times in a plain manila envelope that has trump tower listed as the return address. for the tax return we got last night the envelope looks different, it was addressed to david cay johnston at his home address in rochester, new york. there was no return address on the envelope at all. there was a stamp on the envelope, american flag stamp. and there was a post-mark. it was post-marked westchester county, a county just north of new york city. although this is the first federal tax return information ever released about donald trump, and we re very happy to have it and to have been able to put it into the world, honestly,
called bycall called bay rock. it s one of the most important points because of its ties to russian organized crime. this development deal trump entered into with by arock was to pursue the creation of trump tower moscow. trump tower moscow was never entered into. we know what came of that. ties to shady russian guys. but in the financial world, what came of that? what were the financial entanglements if any that grew out of that russian business adventure that he embarked on in 2005? by 2007 from another deposition we know that donald trump was claiming russia is one of the hottest places in the world for
him. and what he sued him for was $2 billion. sure, why not? . the lawsuit ended up being an embarrassment for mr. trump. he s claiming this author he s suing this author dramatically understated his net worth. that meant the trial was effectively about donald trump s net worth and about whether he could prove he was a billionaire and in the trial he could not prove he was a billionaire. his depositions from that case are littered with embarrassing examples of him overstating and weirdly fantastically stating his income and hiss net worth. he publicly stated, for example, that he d been paid a million dollars for a single speech. turns out he overstated that by more than a half million dollars for that particular speech. he also claimed his net worth went up and down based on his feelings. which was a weird thing to assert. in the end, mr. trump s lawsuit against this author, this $2
we are going to sort out this stuff about russia and its attack on our election. and we are going to figure out what these red flags mean. right now that s just a red flag to leave stuck on a pin in that story. weird development today. it comes amid all sorts of new consternation in washington over the ongoing investigations into that russian attack and into the trump campaign s connections with russia. the first public hearing on trump and russia is going to be on monday in washington. the fbi director briefed two senators from the judiciary committee today on russia and its connections to the trump campaign. but neither one of if senators nor director james comey would talk about it other than that conversation. director comey is due to testify at that hearing on monday on trump and russia. in the meantime senators, including republican senators, are threatening they re going to hold up nominations for