Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
The New York Times
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.
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