MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP TAXES: “The White House pushed back against an exhaustive investigation published by The New York Times on Tuesday [10-2-18] that alleged Donald Trump perpetrated various tax schemes and fraud during the 1990s to bolster the inheritance he received from his parents, calling the report a ‘misleading attack’ on the president’s family…The president’s spokeswoman went on to flaunt various economic accomplishments that she said Trump had realized in his administration, remarking that The Times ‘can rarely find anything positive about the President and his tremendous record of success to report’…The Times investigation — based on thousands of documents the newspaper had obtained, including more than 200 tax returns filed by Fred Trump — says that Donald Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father, and that Trump and his siblings helped their parents dodge taxes by setting up a ‘sham corporation,’ taking improper tax deductions, undervaluing their real estate holdings and other dubious measures. The president has repeatedly called himself a self-made billionaire who borrowed only $1 million from his father and paid it back ‘with interest.’ Democrats seized on the Times report, using it to attack Republican economic policies and to renew their calls for the release of the Trump‘s tax returns.”
–Quint Forgey and Aaron Lorenzo, “White House slams NYT report on Trump tax schemes,” Politico, October 2, 2018 9:35 pm