{"id":23608,"date":"2018-10-03T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23608"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:55:03","slug":"could-this-be-what-finally-brings-down-donald-j-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23608","title":{"rendered":"Could this be what finally brings down Donald J Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president Donald Trump has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a mammoth &#8220;New York Times&#8221; investigation has found that he received at least $413 million in today\u2019s dollars from his father\u2019s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [New York state] tax department is reviewing the allegations in the NYT article and is vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation,\u201d the state taxation authority has told\u00a0the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can read a very short account of the &#8220;NYT&#8221; story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/oct\/02\/trump-helped-parents-hide-money-on-tax-returns-new-york-times?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You can read 11 take-aways from the &#8220;NYT&#8221; piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/02\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And you can read the full &#8220;NYT&#8221; investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/10\/02\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember Al Capone was brought down through his tax affairs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president Donald Trump has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a mammoth &#8220;New York Times&#8221; investigation has found that he received at least $413 million in today\u2019s dollars from his father\u2019s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. \u201cThe [New York state] tax department is reviewing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23616,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23608\/revisions\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}