The Charlie Kirk Show - September 29, 2020


Trump's Taxes and the Big ‘New York Times’ Nothingburger

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President Trump's tax returns tax avoidance vs evasion taxes and value creation
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The New York Times claims to have a copy of Donald Trump's tax returns. But is it true? And why is the media so desperate to destroy this president? Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into this story, why this story is being written, and why the activist media is doing everything they possibly can to destroy Donald Trump.

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00:00:09.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into President Trump's taxes, why this story is being done when it is done, and why the activist media is doing everything they possibly can to destroy this president.
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00:00:51.000 Trump's taxes.
00:00:52.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:54.000 Here we go.
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00:01:28.000 Every single activist media publication in the country was quick to rewrite this story, find different angles and takes on how they think that this, quote, bombshell will destroy President Donald Trump.
00:01:44.000 It is no coincidence that this comes less than 48 hours before the first presidential debate.
00:01:50.000 And it's no coincidence that this comes as President Trump is leading a new polling that shows President Trump up four points in Florida, one point in Arizona, and statistically tied in Pennsylvania and other Midwestern states.
00:02:03.000 So the New York Times claimed and still claims to have, quote, obtained Donald Trump's tax information extending over more than two decades.
00:02:14.000 The headline is, quote, long concealed records show Trump's chronic losses and years of tax avoidance.
00:02:22.000 Brian Stelter from CNN, who never misses an opportunity to be wrong, says, quote, this is among the most important stories of the last five years.
00:02:32.000 But even the writers at the New York Times, they admitted that findings are really just run-of-the-mill business dealings.
00:02:39.000 They say, quote, struggling properties, vast write-offs, and an audit battle, end quote.
00:02:44.000 And the quote, filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled.
00:02:52.000 So first, let's just go through the facts here.
00:02:54.000 The article is 10,000 words long.
00:02:57.000 So the authors of this article made their best attempt to try and rival Homer's Iliad.
00:03:05.000 It shows the egos of these authors and of the New York Times.
00:03:11.000 It also reveals that the New York Times is colluding directly with the Democrat Party.
00:03:18.000 The Biden campaign, hours after this article came out, they already had t-shirts and buttons trying to attack Donald Trump for his taxes.
00:03:27.000 And as if you needed more proof that the New York Times is nothing more than a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, this is the same New York Times that in every single way possible avoided reporting on the Hunter Biden story last week where Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire from the wife of a Moscow mayor, best friends with Putin, for according to the Senate report, it was related to Eastern European sex trafficking.
00:03:55.000 So I put on Twitter, quote, only a dishonest media would care more about President Trump allegedly paying $750 in taxes than Hunter Biden taking $350, $3.5 million from the Russians.
00:04:12.000 Now, during a press briefing on Sunday, President Trump said the claims were, quote, totally made up and said, quote, everything was wrong.
00:04:20.000 They are so bad.
00:04:21.000 I've paid a lot and I've paid a lot of state income taxes too.
00:04:24.000 Alan Gartner from the Trump organization said, quote, President Trump has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.
00:04:38.000 The New York Times story is riddled with gross inaccuracies.
00:04:42.000 Continued by saying, quote, over the past decade, the president has paid tens of millions of dollars.
00:04:47.000 And he continues by saying paid $10 million to the federal government.
00:04:50.000 The paper refuses to show the documents to protect their sources.
00:04:54.000 In fact, they've been challenged on this, and the New York Times has yet to show any of their sources or corroborating details.
00:05:01.000 President Trump once again said that he would be proud to show his returns when they are not, quote, under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
00:05:10.000 He said, quote, it'll all be revealed.
00:05:12.000 It's all going to come out.
00:05:14.000 Remember when Rachel Maddow thought she had received President Trump's tax returns back in 2017, she teased it on air and later had to admit it actually showed that President Trump paid a pretty high tax rate.
00:05:28.000 Now, mind you, the New York Times did not disclose any of these documents throughout their piece.
00:05:34.000 We are fully trusting the New York Times that what they say here is true.
00:05:39.000 That's a very dangerous presupposition.
00:05:42.000 The Washington Times led with, quote, Democrats are unlikely to block Barret.
00:05:49.000 None of the conservative media seems to be taking the bait at all whatsoever.
00:05:53.000 I mean, none of the Daily Caller, Breitbart, or Fox News, for good reason, is indulging whatsoever in this attempt to destroy President Donald Trump.
00:06:04.000 So I have a couple of questions about this entire tax issue with President Trump.
00:06:11.000 First of all, I want to know who leaked these.
00:06:14.000 I want to know.
00:06:15.000 I want to know who gave these tax returns to the New York Times.
00:06:20.000 I put on Twitter, and it has gone absolutely viral with over 38,000 retweets, who leaked Trump's tax returns.
00:06:29.000 Did you know, according to 26 U.S. Code 7213, it makes it illegal to disclose unauthorized information, including tax returns?
00:06:38.000 If true, there should be felony charges leveled.
00:06:42.000 Now, the Democrats are going out of their way, including Brian Stelter.
00:06:46.000 New York Times said that the person who gave over these tax returns had legal access to the information.
00:06:53.000 So I read this in the New York Times, and to an untrained eye, to someone who doesn't deal with the activist media on a daily basis, such as I do every single day, I said, I read it.
00:07:04.000 It's like, that reads really funny.
00:07:06.000 The people who shared this had legal access to this information.
00:07:10.000 I said, but it doesn't say if it was legal to give it to the New York Times.
00:07:14.000 There are lots of people that have legal access to your information.
00:07:17.000 It is illegal to share that information.
00:07:19.000 For example, doctors.
00:07:21.000 Doctors aren't allowed to share information that they have about you.
00:07:24.000 Lawyers, they're not allowed to share information about you.
00:07:27.000 The entire IRS has all of your personal information, including your social security number, all of your financial information.
00:07:33.000 And it is illegal to share that information and make it public.
00:07:38.000 Now, for years, the activist media has been obsessed about Donald Trump's tax returns.
00:07:44.000 It has been pathological for them.
00:07:47.000 They believe that in these tax returns, they will be able to destroy Donald Trump and with it, this incredible people-centered movement around stronger families, higher wages, ending the endless wars, securing our borders, giving voice to the voiceless.
00:08:04.000 The ruling class has been waiting for their opportunity to try to get their hands on these tax filings for quite some time.
00:08:12.000 Now, since we're already in a period of early voting, I have been saying for the last couple of weeks, be ready for the Democrats' march of activist stories, such as the Atlantic piece and now, of course, the tax returns piece.
00:08:27.000 Even though there are no corroborating witnesses, there's no documentation for these stories, they continue to publish them and they continue to push them.
00:08:36.000 So, the New York Times probably illegally obtained these.
00:08:40.000 And is it also illegal to report on them?
00:08:43.000 That remains to be seen.
00:08:44.000 There's legal opinions on both sides.
00:08:47.000 But this is personal financial information.
00:08:49.000 I don't care if he's the president.
00:08:51.000 He's still an American citizen.
00:08:52.000 He has due process.
00:08:53.000 That does not go away just because you run for office.
00:08:57.000 And of course, we know why they're leaking them.
00:08:59.000 Joe Biden is now plummeting in the polls.
00:09:02.000 Joe Biden is not campaigning.
00:09:03.000 Joe Biden expects the entire Democrat infrastructure to do the work for him.
00:09:08.000 He does not do events.
00:09:09.000 He does not take interviews.
00:09:11.000 He does not interface with people.
00:09:12.000 He's unable to.
00:09:14.000 But there's a deeper question here about these tax returns.
00:09:18.000 And I have to give the conservative kind of media landscape credit here.
00:09:22.000 As I mentioned, Washington Times, Daily Caller, Fox News, they have not taken the bait.
00:09:27.000 But I mean this very honestly and clearly.
00:09:31.000 Why does this matter?
00:09:33.000 President Donald Trump's already president.
00:09:35.000 We know that he could negotiate Middle East peace.
00:09:38.000 We know that he's been harder on Russia, more so than any other president in the modern era, including President Obama, where he armed the Ukrainian rebels, he sanctioned Russia, he put on more economic pressure on the Russian Federation.
00:09:52.000 He expelled Russian diplomats from our country.
00:09:55.000 We know what President Trump stands on immigration, on taxes, tax reform.
00:09:59.000 What does this revelation about President Trump having massive businesses across the country, some of which have depreciating losses that allow you to not have to pay federal income taxes?
00:10:13.000 What sort of applicable truth is here?
00:10:16.000 I am failing to see that because there is none.
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00:11:37.000 So we're supposed to believe, because the activist media tells us, that this story around President Trump's taxes is a huge concern.
00:11:45.000 But even independent observers are kind of disappointed.
00:11:48.000 They're let down.
00:11:49.000 They thought there would be more to this story.
00:11:51.000 So let me tell you some good news out of all this.
00:11:55.000 The good news is that this is probably, not definitely, but probably the last biggest attack the Democrats have had waiting on the president.
00:12:08.000 Now, there could still be something more.
00:12:11.000 There's a reason why the New York Times waited till the day before the debate to release this information.
00:12:16.000 There's a reason because early voting is already happening and it's not just trying to lead up to election day.
00:12:21.000 It's now election month in our country.
00:12:25.000 And there's a reason for all of this.
00:12:27.000 The reason is that the activist media has taken a position that they have a moral obligation to try to destroy the president and all the great work that he has done for our country.
00:12:39.000 So we've gone through the Jeffrey Goldberg piece, which was a total and complete lie.
00:12:44.000 And now we have the taxes with President Donald Trump, which looking into this, President Donald Trump did what any business person in his position would have done.
00:12:53.000 By the way, he paid millions in property tax, millions in payroll tax.
00:12:58.000 So he paid his fair share in taxes.
00:13:01.000 He did not pay very much in income tax.
00:13:04.000 Now, the New York Times is very careful in how they described it.
00:13:07.000 They said that he had income tax avoidance.
00:13:10.000 Now, this is wordplay.
00:13:11.000 Avoidance is completely legal.
00:13:14.000 Evasion is illegal.
00:13:16.000 Those are two completely different words.
00:13:18.000 You can avoid taxes legally.
00:13:20.000 You cannot evade taxes illegally.
00:13:23.000 The New York Times knew what they were doing here.
00:13:25.000 They've been working on this story for probably six months.
00:13:29.000 This story by Russ Buetner, Suzanne Craig, and Mike McIntyre.
00:13:35.000 There is an individual on Twitter, Ryan Ellis, who's a tax lobbyist and preparer.
00:13:39.000 He's the president of CFE Economy.
00:13:42.000 Seems like a really smart guy.
00:13:43.000 I think he had a really good point of commentary here.
00:13:46.000 He said, quote, let's start with the obvious.
00:13:48.000 While the reporters and newspaper are held harmless by the First Amendment to the Constitution, whoever leaks these tax returns is likely guilty of multiple felonies.
00:13:57.000 The president has the same right to privacy in his tax returns that you or I have.
00:14:01.000 Let's stop right there.
00:14:02.000 I've said this.
00:14:03.000 Just because he is president, he's still an American citizen.
00:14:07.000 There is no law.
00:14:08.000 There is no measure that requires the president to disclose his tax returns.
00:14:14.000 He says this.
00:14:14.000 He continues by saying, I'm all for voluntarily disclosure of presidents and candidates for tax returns.
00:14:20.000 But as an enrolled agent, I can't emphasize enough what a violation of trust and this leak is.
00:14:25.000 He continues by saying, as to the information, I think the reporters are guilty of some of the, quote, truthful hyperbole, end quote, that Trump accuses himself of.
00:14:34.000 They report normal, albeit large tax deductions as extraordinary.
00:14:39.000 Consulting fees, legal fees, bad debt deductions, depreciation, charitable contributions, capital losses, passive loss deductions are all part of parcel of what tax returns look like for high-income folks.
00:14:52.000 There's nothing unusual about finding them.
00:14:54.000 What is unusual about President Trump's tax returns are the size and velocity of these items.
00:14:58.000 This man who had gushers of income and gushers of legitimate expenses, well placed to offset over time.
00:15:04.000 Nothing wrong with that.
00:15:05.000 Here's what the story could have done a better job explaining, is the distinction between tax evasion, which is illegal, and tax avoidance, reducing taxes via legal planning.
00:15:14.000 I said that before even reading this to you.
00:15:17.000 As an example of small-time tax avoidance, imagine you have some appreciated Coca-Cola stock.
00:15:23.000 Rather than sell the shares and pay the capital gains tax, you donate them to your favorite charity and deduct the values of charitable write-off.
00:15:29.000 The tax code is full of these legal, legitimate tax planning opportunities.
00:15:33.000 In order to use them, you usually have to risk significant capital, be willing to endure losses of income, and generally be in the business of doing business.
00:15:41.000 If you want the certainty of a nice warm W-2 and a home mortgage and a 401k plan, you're not in business.
00:15:47.000 You work for those who put themselves out there and take risks.
00:15:49.000 Well said.
00:15:50.000 So tax avoidance is not available to you.
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00:15:54.000 Just be ready to pay a lot in taxes.
00:15:56.000 You wouldn't know it by reading this hatchet job of a story, but our tax system is extremely progressive.
00:16:01.000 The more you earn, the more you pay in taxes.
00:16:03.000 Trump did it for years when he wasn't recovering from business losses.
00:16:07.000 Whether Trump's tax planning and those of his advisors meet tax law obligations is a matter between him and the IRS.
00:16:12.000 But the items themselves are perfectly legitimate, and they have no insight into the discrete details of these claims.
00:16:17.000 And finally, this is nothing more than an orange man bad version of gotcha pieces of liberal journalism.
00:16:24.000 Finishes by saying, I strongly suspect only blue checkmark, Twitter types, and liberal activists will actually care about this story.
00:16:33.000 And again, he is not a prospective presidential candidate.
00:16:35.000 We know that he had a lot of money.
00:16:37.000 It was widely conjectured that his business has suffered losses post-2008 financial crisis.
00:16:42.000 And we know what kind of president he is.
00:16:43.000 He's a president that keeps his promises, that fights for forgotten America, that gives a voice to the voiceless, that is unapologetically American.
00:16:55.000 And so tell me why his tax returns are such a pressing issue right now.
00:17:01.000 And people say, well, we need to know the source of the income.
00:17:03.000 No, we don't.
00:17:04.000 You already see right here, you already see the depreciation and losses, and you're not going to get anymore unless you have another illegal leak, which they very well might.
00:17:11.000 By the way, the president's been spied on by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pfizer Court.
00:17:17.000 Now he's had his personal private tax information leaked to the entire public and population.
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00:18:22.000 They are going after the president because he paid very little to nothing in federal income taxes.
00:18:26.000 But it's hard being a job creator in our country.
00:18:29.000 It's very hard.
00:18:30.000 It's hard to create wealth.
00:18:32.000 It's difficult to employ tens of thousands of people.
00:18:36.000 You see, President Trump took massive risks throughout his life.
00:18:39.000 He built Trump Tower.
00:18:40.000 He revitalized the New York skyline, built buildings from Las Vegas to California to the third largest building in Chicago, employing tens of thousands of blue-collar workers.
00:18:50.000 To take that kind of risk, it takes massive amounts of capital overlays and incredible dedication.
00:18:58.000 And because of that, you're going to lose sometimes.
00:19:00.000 President Trump being very diversified in real estate holdings, when the 2008 financial crisis hit, specifically towards housing, President Donald Trump probably had a lot of losses because of that.
00:19:14.000 And because of that, he decided to pursue the correct way through many different accounting measures to have write-offs.
00:19:21.000 But here's the interesting thing.
00:19:22.000 Why are Democrats so upset that President Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes?
00:19:27.000 President Trump, through a tax preparer, was obviously following the tax laws that Barack Obama passed because the Democrats view the government like a church.
00:19:38.000 They say, how dare you not pay more?
00:19:40.000 And of course, when Democrats and liberals are challenged on this, they have no good answer whatsoever.
00:19:47.000 So, for example, Warren Buffett famously during the Obama year said, raise my taxes.
00:19:52.000 I am paying less than my secretary.
00:19:55.000 I'm paying a lower rate than my secretary, Warren Buffett, who's worth $75 billion.
00:20:00.000 Berkshire Hathaway, the Oracle of Omaha.
00:20:03.000 And the correct response to Warren Buffett is, who's stopping you?
00:20:06.000 Did you know that the IRS is able to take unrestricted gifts?
00:20:11.000 They do.
00:20:12.000 They're able to take another couple billion dollars.
00:20:15.000 If you say, I think my money is best spent with the Internal Revenue Service, they will take your money.
00:20:21.000 But Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett and the ruling class in this country and the wealthiest Americans, despite having the opportunity to do so, they don't voluntarily contribute more money to government.
00:20:35.000 They seek deductions.
00:20:36.000 They seek losses to try to maximize the amount of capital that they can keep and not give to the government.
00:20:44.000 And so for any liberal out there with a substantial or significant net worth, the question should be asked of them, why don't you write a bigger check to the IRS?
00:20:53.000 President Trump has a good answer to that because he thinks more people should keep more of their money.
00:20:56.000 It's President Trump's belief that taxation actually is a chokehold on value creation in our country.
00:21:02.000 And so for George Soros out there, who gave $18 billion to the Open Society Foundation so our kids can hate America to train up activists to burn our cities and support district attorney races across the country, why wouldn't George Soros give $18 billion to the federal government?
00:21:18.000 Because George Soros believes that private industry and charity is actually a much more efficient means to destroying the country than the government.
00:21:27.000 Donald Trump sought deductions and he was right to do that.
00:21:31.000 There's nothing illegal.
00:21:33.000 There's nothing nefarious in any of these documents at all, whatsoever.
00:21:38.000 We also know that he donates his $400,000 salary as president.
00:21:42.000 We know that he has personal wealth from television deals, book deals, and unlimited sources of income.
00:21:51.000 The president is being unfairly attacked for the same pattern of behavior that the Democrat ruling class has engaged in.
00:21:59.000 And for any Democrat out there that says, I've paid more in taxes than Donald Trump, first of all, you haven't.
00:22:06.000 President Trump has paid tens of millions of dollars in payroll taxes, employing blue-collar workers all across the country, not to mention property taxes.
00:22:14.000 But most importantly, President Donald Trump created value for this country.
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00:23:22.000 And so this is the media's big moment.
00:23:27.000 The activist media has been looking for an opening to try to destroy this president financially his entire political career since he went down the golden escalator.
00:23:36.000 But by doing so, they actually, I think, have vindicated the president against all of these attacks.
00:23:45.000 You see, the entire underlying premise of Trump's tax controversy, which it isn't, is that the tax avoidance is wrong, that it's somehow amoral, but it's not.
00:23:58.000 And we as conservatives must reject the premise.
00:24:00.000 In fact, anytime that this tax issue gets brought up, you should say, time out.
00:24:05.000 How and why did they get leaked?
00:24:07.000 That is how I took this story immediately yesterday.
00:24:10.000 And we have changed the conversation on social media because I immediately did not accept the premise of the activist media.
00:24:18.000 This is how conservatives have to react when they go after this president or when they go after strong conservatives.
00:24:25.000 They say, we must be outraged about this.
00:24:27.000 We say, why?
00:24:28.000 And by the way, how did you get these taxes?
00:24:31.000 Who broke the law to get them to you?
00:24:33.000 And is it against the law to publish them?
00:24:35.000 Put them on defense.
00:24:38.000 In fact, the New York Times actually helped President Trump out.
00:24:42.000 That's right.
00:24:43.000 The New York Times just made an in-kind contribution to the Donald J. Trump for president campaign.
00:24:51.000 The New York Times actually helped Trump by exposing another aspect of the Russian collusion myth, which is that he did not have an unreported connection to Russia.
00:25:01.000 As the Times reporter Michael Tracy pointed out, quote, Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but the reporters do not reveal his true wealth, nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.
00:25:17.000 The only Russian angle the Times is able to find is that it analyzed out of all the records, 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, where Trump is a co-owner of the pageant, made $2.3 million from the event.
00:25:32.000 So our president was brought through an entire special investigation through Bob Mueller.
00:25:37.000 He saw many of his friends go to prison, millions of dollars of legal fees, and probably gave the Democrats the house back in 2018.
00:25:47.000 And out of all that, we now realize the president got $2.3 million just because he co-owned a pageant in Russia.
00:25:57.000 So thank you, New York Times, for vindicating this president under these false accusations.
00:26:05.000 But this is a sign of hope for those of us that are conservatives.
00:26:10.000 If you understand the activist media, they work in harmony with the Democrat Party and the Joe Biden campaign.
00:26:17.000 As Joe Biden is slipping in the polls, and as I mentioned previously, I was just in Illinois, still am, but I was just yesterday in St. Charles, Illinois.
00:26:28.000 5,000 Trump supporters came to an event.
00:26:30.000 I have never seen enthusiasm like this in my eight and a half years of doing this.
00:26:36.000 And I was on a front seat for President Trump's campaign in 2016.
00:26:42.000 There is so much pent-up frustration under these stay-at-home orders, mask mandates, business shutdowns, misapplication of justice.
00:26:53.000 I think the Democrats are giving all they have right now to try to slow down the Trump momentum.
00:26:59.000 What we are seeing happen in real time is, as Ernest Hemingway said, things happen gradually, then suddenly.
00:27:04.000 We are now entering the suddenly phase.
00:27:07.000 Joe Biden is trending very poorly in turnout, absentee ballot requests and collection, volunteers, grassroots support, ground game.
00:27:15.000 President Trump has heavily invested in all of that.
00:27:17.000 And we at Students for Trump Turning Point Action are knocking on tens of thousands of doors every single weekend.
00:27:22.000 I announce I'm going to be somewhere.
00:27:24.000 I turn over a rock.
00:27:25.000 I got 600, 2,000, 5,000 Trump supporters waiting.
00:27:30.000 And for the New York Times and for the Democrats, I mean this honestly, non-sarcastically.
00:27:36.000 Is this really all you got?
00:27:39.000 I was expecting a lot more from you.
00:27:41.000 Now, I'm not going to take a victory lap yet.
00:27:44.000 I will be ready for the next attack against our president, and I'm sure we will see more unsubstantiated attacks in the weeks to come.
00:27:55.000 But Trump's taxes were a pathological obsession of the Democrat base.
00:27:59.000 They sued, they held hearings, they subpoenaed, and now they have them.
00:28:04.000 They spent millions of dollars trying to get them.
00:28:06.000 This is the last time I planned to ever talk about Donald Trump's taxes.
00:28:12.000 We have very pressing issues in our country, and the activist media is intentionally trying to throw a socialist smoke screen to try to distract us from the real issues.
00:28:23.000 One out of four young people in this country have contemplated suicide, according to the Center for Disease Control, in the last 90 days.
00:28:31.000 We have an opioid crisis in our country.
00:28:33.000 We still have millions of people out of work.
00:28:35.000 Our borders remain far too open.
00:28:38.000 Social media tech elites have gone unchecked.
00:28:42.000 I think it is completely immaterial and irrelevant what the president did with his tax returns multiple years ago, as we already have a record of him governing as president of the United States.
00:28:54.000 The pathological obsession that the Democrats have towards President Donald Trump when it comes to his taxes show that they cannot criticize him on policy, shows that the attacks going after his incredible agenda to reignite and revitalize American workers has fallen flat.
00:29:12.000 And so here's my advice for you out there.
00:29:15.000 Brace yourself.
00:29:17.000 Brace for impact.
00:29:19.000 There will be more fake stories and activist media members who breathlessly repeat that this is the biggest story of the century.
00:29:28.000 It's not.
00:29:29.000 I can name 10 stories in the last week that are more important than this one.
00:29:35.000 I guess you could say it's the biggest story of the last 10 years, just him running for president.
00:29:40.000 Never before has someone consumed the news cycle, monopolized the conversation as much as President Donald Trump.
00:29:48.000 When it comes to these taxes, this is the ultimate swing and miss from an activist press that has been doing everything they possibly can to debase and delegitimize this president.
00:30:00.000 They thought they got him on this.
00:30:03.000 And for the mainstream activist press that thought that they can then pursue criminal indictments post-presidency for President Trump, if the New York Times would have saw any of that in these leaked documents, they would have published it.
00:30:18.000 So I'm happy to report, everybody, I am now finished.
00:30:22.000 I am finished ever talking about President Donald Trump's taxes.
00:30:26.000 I will never do it again, and you should neither.
00:30:29.000 We have real problems in this country.
00:30:32.000 We got to close our borders.
00:30:33.000 We've got to protect workers and make our country great again.
00:30:39.000 Thank you guys so much for listening today.
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