The New York Times’ bombshell report Sunday on nearly two decades’ worth of President Trump’s tax returns included so many revelations about his finances that the newspaper listed them out separately.
There was the sum he paid in consulting fees to a company co-owned by his daughter Ivanka Trump ($747,622), or in haircuts as host of “The Apprentice” (more than $70,000), both of which he wrote off as business expenses. There were losses reported by his golf courses (at least $315 million) and his Washington hotel (more than $55 million).
But in the hours after the publication of the Times report, which Trump decried as “totally fake news,” one much smaller figure drew the most attention: $750. Continue reading.