who are celebrating. amal evolve she. we begin this hour wit confirmation of one of the man major lies that the former president told the america people this time regarding his taxes. following a years-long legal and political saga be house weight and mean committee was finally able t secure donald trump s ta returns. they voted to release them t the american public this pas week despite his insistent ally s donald trump s tax returns wer not under audit when he ran fo president the first time the irs did not audit th personal tax returns of donald trump during his first two years in office. this is an important point it s interesting because besid being one of the forme presidents publicly stated reasons for not releasing hi tax returns. the irs has a program mandatin the quote mandatory review o the presidents individual ta returns. that protocol was followed for presidents barack obama and jo biden. dir us did finally follow it own rules of the forme presidents third year
trump s tax situation. including some of what he paid or rather didn t pay along with his history o devaluing his properties for taxation purposes while over valuing them for loans and insurance and essentially all of what we kno comes from the extraordinary pulitzer prize-winning 201 investigation from the new yor times david barstow suzann craig and russ buettner. from the monumental 2020 follow-up from rescue or suzanna craig and mike mcentire those reports are truly th definition of good journalism. with the 2018 investigatio revealing donald trump s ric history of dodging taxes along with the financial benefits of being born into hi father s real estate empire. and the 2020 report revealin how trump paid no income tax a all for ten years between 2005 and 2020 and the paltry sum of 750 buck in federal income tax in eac of his first two years i office which we now have confirmation of an which are also the same two years whic
there for any and all communications that they may have had with either trump, his campaign, other political allies? what does that moves tell you about where the investigation is heading? i think that s part of the fake electors scheme, i believe. that investigation is in the early stages. i want to compare that to mar-a-lago. we have seen the mar-a-lago documents case pretty far along, right? they raided trump s residence, brought witnesses before the grand jury. that looks like potential charges. i would not be surprised if jack smith pursues charges against trump in the mar-a-lago case and then continues the fake electors scheme investigation, which could take quite some time. i expect that investigation to go on for months to come. all right, renata mariotti, suzanna craig, thank you both for starting this evening off with us. greatly appreciate your insights and expertise as always. coming up, the biggest loser and the georgia senate runoff was not russia walker but donald tr
early stages. i want to compare that to mar-a-lago. we have seen the mar-a-lago documents case pretty far along, right? they raided trump s residence, brought witnesses before the grand jury. that looks like potential charges. i would not be surprised if jack smith pursues charges against trump in the mar-a-lago case and then continues the fake electors scheme investigation, which could take quite some time. i expect that investigation to go on for months to come. all right, renata mariotti, suzanna craig, thank you both for starting this evening off with us. greatly appreciate your insights and expertise as always. coming up, the biggest loser and the georgia senate runoff was not russia walker but donald trump. trump [music playing] let s get you home for the holidays.
spend millions of dollars in the years, instead of prosecuting actual murderous thugs on the streets of new york, they go after the political enemies. unfortunately, people dodge taxes all the time, and this is unfair. it is actually not a solid argument in a court of law, sorry. actually not a saccording to thn post, the trump organization e trump organization - joyce vance and suzanne craig joins me now. joyce, i love the fact that they wrote their own indictment with spreadsheets. your thoughts? well, this is an absolutely fascinating sort of commentary toward the top organizations at the trump organization to be making right now. they haven t been indicted yet, ellen weisselberg is the one who s indicted in this