The New York Times found the president received a whopping $413 million from his father.
President Donald Trump’s business empire and legacy as a billionaire has long come with the stench of shady dealings and unscrupulous practices, but much of that history has been shrouded from public oversight.
But in a new bombshell report from the New York Times, reporters detailed a stunning level of corruption and duplicitous dealings behind a massive $413 million inheritance the president received from his father, the real estate magnate Fred Trump.
“The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s,” wrote reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Beuttner.
View the complete October 2 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet.org website here.