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He’s the President, yet we’re still trying to answer basic questions about how his business works: What deals are happening, who they’re happening with, and if the President and his family are keeping their promise to separate the Trump Organization from the Trump White House. “Trump, Inc.” is a joint reporting project from WNYC Studios and ProPublica that digs deep into these questions. We’ll be layout out what we know, what we don’t and how you can help us fill in the gaps.
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Two Convictions That Shook Trump-World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In April, we published an investigation into Michael Cohen’s past. That episode traced how so many of...
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Manafort, Inc. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Paul Manafort was Donald Trump’s campaign chairman for three critical months in 2016, leading up to the Republican Convention. But for a decade before that, he did political work in Ukraine. And...
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Government Employees Spend Your Money at Trump Hotels from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Tracking the money that goes to the president from political campaigns and taxpayers.
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Trump, Inc, Live: From ‘The Art of the Deal’ to the Dossier from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Trump, Inc. Team holds a live show in New York City to ponder Donald Trump’s business model from the 1980’s to today.
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The "King of Debt"? He Pays Cash. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Donald Trump has proclaimed himself "the king of debt." So how come he paid all-cash for mansions, golf courses, and a winery?
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And Now, The End Is Near from 2021-01-19T12:00
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Nobody Wants To Work With The Trumps Anymore from 2021-01-15T12:00
In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and an unprecedented second impeachment, a growing number of businesses, governments, and financial institutions are severing ties with Pres...
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Donald Trump's Legal Hangover from 2020-12-17T12:00
Donald Trump's presidency is coming to end, but there are ongoing legal investigations that will be following him out of the White House. We examine two of the pending probes into potential wron...
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Midnight Regulations from 2020-11-25T12:00
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You're Fired from 2020-11-12T12:00
As the Trump campaign wages a haphazard legal campaign against the rightful outcome of the 2020 election, the Trump administration is working to remake the federal bureaucracy.
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Radiolab: What If? from 2020-10-31T12:00
We're all wondering how the 2020 election will pan out. Our colleagues at Radiolab went looking for answers.
This episode was reported by Bethel Habte (who's now a producer at the Giml...
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Who Matters In America from 2020-10-22T12:00
Trump, Inc. co-host Andrea Bernstein sits down with Kai Wright, host ofThe United States of Anxiety, to discuss how American hist...
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Trump, Mnuchin, And The 2017 Tax Overhaul from 2020-10-14T12:00
President Trump ran for president on three promises: He'd build a wall on the Mexican border, repeal Obamacare, and overhaul the nation's tax system. And approaching the 2020 election, Tru...
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Why We Still Don't Know The Truth About Russia from 2020-10-07T12:00
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The Kushners’ Freddie Mac Loan Wasn’t Just Massive. It Came With Unusually Good Terms, Too. from 2020-10-01T12:00
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Trump's Taxes, Finally from 2020-09-28T12:00
President Trump has spent years fighting with politicians and prosecutors who wanted to see his taxes. Now we know what he’s been hiding.
Co-host I...
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Block The Vote from 2020-09-24T12:00
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The Empty Office at 555 California St. from 2020-09-17T12:00
The Qatari government rents office space in President Trump's most profitable building. No one works there.
The Perry Deals from 2020-09-10T12:00
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Mary Trump from 2020-08-28T12:00
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and President Trump's niece, talks to co-host Andrea Bernstein about the Trump family, the Republican National Convention, and her book Listen
The Russia Report from 2020-08-26T12:00
In this bonus episode of Trump, Inc., co-hosts Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein talk to Politico’sNatasha Bertrandand The Atlantic’s Listen
The Diplomat, The Machers, And The Oligarch (rerun) from 2020-08-19T12:00
This episode was originally released Nov. 13, 2019.
The impeachment inquiry focuses on whether or not there was a quid pro quo: Military aid in exchange for an investigatio...
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'Repeat Offender' from 2020-08-12T12:00
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Why is Trump’s Campaign Suing a Small Wisconsin TV Station? from 2020-07-23T12:00
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Temporary Presidential Immunity Is Not A Thing from 2020-07-10T12:00
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New Questions for Trump’s Biggest Lenders from 2020-05-27T12:00
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Temporary Presidential Immunity from 2020-05-13T12:00
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The Accountants from 2020-05-06T12:00
On May 12, after a six-week delay caused by the pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the epic battle by congressional committees and New York prosecutors to pry loose ei...
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He Went To Jared from 2020-04-22T12:00
On April 2, Jared Kushner uncharacteristically took to the podium to speak at theWhite House’s daily coronavirus briefing...
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How Trump Is Eligible for a Coronavirus Rescue from 2020-04-08T12:00
In a late March press briefing on the coronavirus, President Trump turned the microphone over to Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of a company called MyPillow. Lindell — a regular on Fox News a...
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What To Look Out For from 2020-03-27T12:00
Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say from 2020-03-11T12:00
The Trump Organization paid bribes, through middlemen, to New York City tax assessors to lower its property tax bills for several Manhattan buildings in the 1980s and 1990s, according to f...
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The Family Business (rerun) from 2020-03-04T12:00
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Paying to Protect the President from 2020-02-19T12:00
Last year, Eric Trump defended his father’s frequent visits to properties owned by the family business, saying that Trump hotels charge far less than others would. “If they were to go to a...
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An Intimate Dinner with President Trump from 2020-02-05T12:00
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman have attained notoriety for their parts in the Ukraine mess. They’re both Soviet-born U.S. citizens who worked closely with the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy...
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Read Everything, Talk to Everyone: Reporting on Trump, Inc. from 2020-02-03T12:00
Andrea Bernstein discusses the reporting process behind Trump, Inc. and her new book,American Oligarchs: The Kushner...
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The Trump Inauguration’s ‘Unconscionable Contract’ from 2020-01-23T12:00
Reporters Ilya Marritz and Justin Elliotthave been reporting on Trump's inauguration since 2018. They looked atListen
Turning Politics Into Money from 2020-01-22T12:00
For generations, the Trump family has used government and politicians as a path to profit. As president, Donald Trump has taken things even further.
“This guy is a state...
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Gordon Sondland from 2019-11-27T12:00
Three women recall Gordon Sondland made unwanted sexual contact in business settings. One says he exposed himself. All recall professional retaliation after they rejected him. Sondland den...
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"Corruption Is Our Achilles Heel" from 2019-11-26T12:00
Glenn Simpson has a lot to say about business corruption and Russian influence in the U.S. In this episode, we speak to him. Simpson first came to these issues as an investigative journali...
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The Diplomat, The Machers, And The Oligarch from 2019-11-13T12:00
The impeachment inquiry focuses on whether or not there was a quid pro quo: Military aid in exchange for an investigation. But what if you look at the same events from a different vantage ...
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All The President’s Memes from 2019-10-30T12:00
President Trump's Doral resort has been in the news a lot lately. His chief of staff announced from the White House that America would host the next G-7 summit there. Then, Trump backed off. We'...
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The Numbers Don't Match from 2019-10-16T12:00
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is serving prison time for understating his income to the IRS, and for overstating his income to banks. Trump's former executive vice pres...
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Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. from 2019-09-19T12:00
In August, at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, a tall man with a Viking beard and an elegant gray suit walked out on a stage, carrying a stack of red Make America Great Again...
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The Family Business from 2019-09-18T12:00
The Trump, Inc. podcast from WNYC and ProPublica is back. And we'll be bringing you new episodes every two weeks.
When we started all the way back in early 2018, we lai...
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The Questions Mueller Didn't Ask from 2019-07-25T12:00
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A New Kind of Influencer: Friend of the President’s Kid from 2019-07-22T12:00
Over the past two years, the Trump administration has been grappling with how to handle the transition to the next generation of mobile broadband technology. With spending expected to run into h...
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An Opportunity for the Rich from 2019-06-19T12:00
Under a six-lane span of freeway leading into downtown Baltimore sits what may be the most valuable parking spaces in America.
Lying near a development project controlled by Under Armour’s...
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Pay Day at the Trump Doral from 2019-06-05T12:00
In mid-March, the payday lending industry held its annual convention at the Trump National Doral hotel outside Miami. Payday lenders offer loans on the order of a few hundred dollars, typically ...
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Former FBI Deputy Chief Andrew McCabe and Trump, Inc. Compare Notes from 2019-05-29T12:00
Before he became infamous for working on the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Trump Russia investigation, former acting FBI chief Andrew McCabe investigated the Russian mo...
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Trump and Deutsche Bank: It’s Complicated from 2019-05-22T12:00
Whispers of money laundering have swirled around Donald Trump’s businesses for years. One of his Listen
What We’ve Learned From Trump’s Tax Transcripts from 2019-05-10T12:00
President Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns. He has sued his former accountants and Deutsche Bank to keep them from releasing his returns after they were subpoenaed to do...
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The Government's Bar Tab at Mar-a-Lago from 2019-05-01T12:00
Find “Trump, Inc.”wherever you get your podcasts. This week’s episode examines th...
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'Harm to Ongoing Matter' from 2019-04-19T12:00
On Thursday, the “Trump, Inc.” team gathered with laptops, pizza and Post-its to disconnect — and to read special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
What we found was page...
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Trump, Inc. Goes Beyond Collusion from 2019-03-25T12:00
In this Trump, Inc. podcast extra, we talk about what we know, what we don’t know and what we still want to know after Attorney General William Barr gave his summary of special counsel Rob...
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Trump’s Moscow Tower Problem from 2019-03-21T12:00
This week, we’re exploring President Donald Trump’s efforts to do business in Moscow. Our team — Heather Vogell, Andrea Bernstein, Meg Cramer and Katie Zavadski — dug into just<...
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Six Tips for Preparing for the Mueller Report, Which May or May Not Be Coming from 2019-03-05T12:00
Being investigative journalists means we’re constantly asking questions. But these days, it also means people are askingusquestions. One we hear a lot no...
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What We’ve Learned From Michael Cohen from 2019-02-28T12:00
For a year now, Trump, Inc. has been digging into the president’s business. We’ve reached out repeatedly to the Trump Organization with questions. Mostly, we haven’t gotten answers. Listen
How a Nigerian Presidential Candidate Hired a Trump Lobbyist and Ended Up in Trump’s Lobby from 2019-02-27T12:00
This week, Trump, Inc. goes inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Located in the Old Post Office, the hotel is at the center of three lawsuits alleging President Donald ...
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Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was Their Agenda? from 2019-02-22T12:00
For a year, “Trump, Inc.” has been digging into the 2017 inauguration. That reporting led us to look closely at the man Donald Trump picked to run the event, Tom Barrack, a wealthy busines...
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Trump Inauguration Chief Tom Barrack’s ‘Rules for Success’ from 2019-02-20T12:00
Last year, our Trump, Inc. podcast with WNYCexplor...
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What We Now Know About Manafort, Cohen and ‘Individual-1’ from 2018-12-12T12:00
Court filings by prosecutors last week shined a light on the business lives of two men who worked get Donald Trump elected president: former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen and forme...
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Trump Jr. Invested in a Hydroponic Lettuce Company from 2018-12-04T12:00
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, took a stake last year in a startup whose co-chairman is a major Trump campaign fundraiser who has sought financial support from the federal governm...
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The Emolument Suit Against Trump That Is Moving Ahead from 2018-11-14T12:00
There’s lots of talk about congressional investigations of the Trump administration that may be coming. Meanwhile, there is already a push to pull back the veil on the president’s conflicts. And...
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So What Trump Investigations Could Be Coming? from 2018-11-08T12:00
For two years, journalists have operated in an environment where Congress has declined to inquire into key issues surrounding President Trump’s family business: Is he profiting from his presiden...
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Rudy, Inc. from 2018-10-31T12:00
Rudy Giuliani has had many identities in his time on the public stage. A crusading federal prosecutor who struck terror in mobsters and Wall Street titans alike. A sometimes cantankerous New Yor...
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Trump and Taxes: The Art of the Dodge from 2018-10-24T12:00
From the moment during the presidential campaign that Donald Trump broke decades of precedent and declined to release his personal tax returns, the issue of Trump and the taxes he has paid (or n...
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Trump’s Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia from 2018-10-19T12:00
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Trump’s Patron-in-Chief: Sheldon Adelson from 2018-10-10T12:00
Late on a Thursday evening in February 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for his first visit with President Donald Trump. A few hours ...
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The Cost of the Office? Trump's Billion-Dollar Loss from 2018-10-05T12:00
Nearly 20 years ago, Donald Trump told Fortune magazine that he could run for president and make money do...
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The Business of Silence from 2018-10-03T12:00
President Donald Trump has had many roles in his life: Real estate scion, reality show star, Oval Office holder. But through it all, one thing has remained consistent. He tries to control what i...
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Elliott Broidy's All-Access Pass from 2018-09-26T12:00
Trump, Inc. is back. Our podcast with ProPublica focused earlier this year on the many mysteries around President Donald Trump’s businesses. This season, we’re widening the lens to look at the p...
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