CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “Sen. Cory Booker accused Donald Trump of ‘criminal behavior.’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren said it’s more evidence of the president’s corruption. And Washington Gov. Jay Inslee cracked: ‘The Emperor did have clothes, but it turns out it was his dad’s.’ A day after The New York Times published a 14,000-word investigation on the Trump family’s financial history — detailing elaborate schemes to avoid taxes that the newspaper said amounted to fraud — potential Democratic 2020 contenders were salivating over how to use it as a line of attack against the president. Booker told reporters Wednesday [10-3-18] that he believes Trump should pay back ‘millions of dollars in taxes,’ and he poked at Republicans for not calling for an investigation…Warren tweeted a link to the New York Times story on Tuesday [10-2-18], writing, ‘Exhibit #237 of why anyone running for federal office should have to disclose their tax returns. Congress needs to pass my legislation to #EndCorruptionNow, which would force candidates (and @realDonaldTrump) to make their tax returns public.’ Potentially most stinging to Trump personally was the assertion that his father, Fred, gave the president a far greater financial boost than the president has claimed. It undermines the self-made-billionaire narrative that Trump loves to tout on the campaign stump.”
–Natasha Korecki and David Siders, “2020 Dems pounce on Trump tax evasion report,” Politico, October 3, 2018 5:58 pm