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Citing Recusal, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Hired Sessions
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A open conversation with the NYT's Baker, Schmidt and Haberman by president Trump in mid July 2017. This conversation of the president with the NYT is remarkable for its frankness about people close to the president during the election campaign, particularly Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Sessions was the only leading Senator in Congress who supported Mr. Trump from the beginning. Southern states came out heavily for Mr. Trump as part of the traditional Republican base. Trump says of Sessions that had he known Sessions was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation he would not have appointed Sessions as the new Attorney General. About Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein Trump says he should never have appointed Mueller as Special Counsel. The president also says Mueller should stay only with information related to Russia and not stray from that to delve into Trump's finances. During the election efforts were made to get Mr. Trump to disclose more about his finances as a real estate businessman- most of these efforts failed and not much is known about president Trump's finances. The president says he never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, yet he left open this possiblility, according to the NYT, as the president feels it has affected the first 6 months of the Trump presidency. This interview with president Trump was published on July 20, 2017, the day after an editorial in the WSJ by the Editorial Board of the Journal on July 19, 2017, calling for transparency from president Trump on the Russia investigation. This was an exceptional and powerful editorial by its editorial board telling president Trump that he must tell everything he knows now or face the risk of losing public confidence, and risk his presidency. It said that president Trump was wrong to think that his larger than life personality and social media role could insulate him from the effects of this lack of transparency.
Donald Trump and reported tax avoidance for the $916 million loss in the 1995 tax return
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NYT report on November 1, 2016, describes tax avoidance maneuvres by Trump that enabled showing losses of this magnitude of $916 million mostly for casino losses, which would make it possible to avoid taxes on income earned in other businesses. Debt that is cancelled by creditors is normally shown as taxable income. A tax avoidance method enabled not showing this, increasing the size of the loss usable to offset other income from branding, television. NYT estimates that this would make it possible for Trump businesses to wipe out $50 million of taxable income for 18 years.
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