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Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes - 5 former city employees and an ex-Trump Org employee say Trump Org used middlemen to pay NYC tax assessors to lower building assessments and pay less taxes in the 1980s & 1990s, by @hvogell @katherrun
propublica.org/article/trumps…
"Two of the five city employees said they personally took bribes to lower the assessment on a Trump property; the other three said they had indirect knowledge of the payments."

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Payments were made through intermediaries - "No evidence has emerged that Donald Trump personally knew of or participated in the alleged bribery."

Trump has decades of experience using intermediaries and cutouts to do the dirty work (and take the fall)

propublica.org/article/trumps…
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Wendy Siegelman
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Trump says it’s dangerous to use the Defense Production Act to force private businesses to provide government with critical medical supplies right after explaining why the government needs to bail out the cruise line industry for the benefit of the country 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Wendy Siegelman
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Media outlets should send health, medical, science experts to WH press briefings - they may be sending questions behind-the-scenes, but experts should be in the room who can pivot on the spot, ask follow-up questions & require responses from WH experts instead of Trump winging it
Cable news has this same problem, so much coverage is general news hosts / pundits weighing in on the pandemic, with a few, but not enough spots given to real experts, and interviews with experts are mostly too short and don't allow in-depth discussion or analysis
Imagine the balancing act Dr. Fauci and other experts in the WH need to navigate now to do their jobs and be informative without offending Trump's ego and risk being sidelined, which I'm sure is a real risk (to them and the country)
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Wendy Siegelman
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When Trump sycophants defend him reporters should go off topic, draw attention to his authoritarian behavior & ask:

Trump got things wrong, it's on tape, why won't you acknowledge it?

Are you afraid to publicly disagree with him? Or admit a mistake was made? Provide an example
News hosts should push back harder to call out the cowardly behavior of guests who lie on behalf of Trump (better yet, don't have them as guests)

And in press conferences, reporters should back each other up and keep re-asking unanswered questions

3+ years into this presidency and so many in the media continue to fail at covering Trump - there are so many similar suggestions from 2016 (I probably made a few of them then myself). Sigh.
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Trump: Day 712
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Mona
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And THIS happened today...while we weren't looking.. This is NOT small, & it's certainly very telling.
#ThursdayThoughts
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2/"President Donald Trump’s former tax attorney for over a decade, Edward Burke, had his Chicago office raided by federal agents on Thursday. Burke, currently serving as the chairman of the City Council Committee on Finance, assisted Trump with his taxes for 12 years and fought
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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