{"id":3339,"date":"2020-08-30T19:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2020-08-30T19:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T19:15:27","slug":"the-real-maryanne-trump-scandal-is-the-trump-familys-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3339","title":{"rendered":"The real Maryanne Trump scandal is the Trump family\u2019s wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“President Donald Trump\u2019s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, sharply disparaged the president and said she believed he paid a friend to take his SATs in audio recordings published by the Washington Post<\/a> Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump \u201chas no principles \u2014 none,\u201d Barry said in the recordings provided to the Post. \u201cIt\u2019s the phoniness of it all. It\u2019s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barry, a former federal judge, made the comments in a set of secret recordings in 2018 and 2019 by her niece, Mary Trump, who has emerged as a fierce critic of the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barry said that Donald Trump \u201cdoesn\u2019t read,\u201d that \u201che was a brat,\u201d and that she did his homework for him, adding that she believes he paid a friend to take the standardized tests that allowed him to transfer from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The 2018 Times investigation revealed a pattern of tax evasion<\/a> that allowed Donald Trump to receive the current equivalent of at least $413 million from his father. Fred Trump, the family\u2019s patriarch whose real estate business was the foundation of its wealth, further enriched the family by hiding millions of dollars of gifts through shell companies.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The IRS didn\u2019t catch on, and Fred Trump transferred more than $1 billion to his children. The Trumps paid only about $52.2 million in taxes, rather than the at least $550 million they could have been forced to pay.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In 2018, a lawyer for Donald Trump denied the Times\u2019s reporting, saying the allegations of \u201cfraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory,\u201d adding, \u201cthere was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Donald Trump has claimed on the campaign trail to be a self-made billionaire, and he has built trust with many voters on the premise that his business expertise can benefit the country. But the Times\u2019s reporting illustrates how Trump \u2014 who was earning $200,000 annually in today\u2019s dollars by the age of 3 \u2014 was propped up by family wealth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/8\/23\/21397856\/maryanne-trump-barry-recordings-mary-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Donald Trump\u2019s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, sharply disparaged the president and said she believed he paid a friend to take his SATs in audio recordings published by the Washington Post Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Trump \u201chas no principles \u2014 none,\u201d Barry said in the recordings provided to the Post. \u201cIt\u2019s the phoniness of it all. It\u2019s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barry, a former federal judge, made the comments in a set of secret recordings in 2018 and 2019 by her niece, Mary Trump, who has emerged as a fierce critic of the president.<\/p>\n

Barry said that Donald Trump \u201cdoesn\u2019t read,\u201d that \u201che was a brat,\u201d and that she did his homework for him, adding that she believes he paid a friend to take the standardized tests that allowed him to transfer from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The 2018 Times investigation revealed a pattern of tax evasion that allowed Donald Trump to receive the current equivalent of at least $413 million from his father. Fred Trump, the family\u2019s patriarch whose real estate business was the foundation of its wealth, further enriched the family by hiding millions of dollars of gifts through shell companies.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The IRS didn\u2019t catch on, and Fred Trump transferred more than $1 billion to his children. The Trumps paid only about $52.2 million in taxes, rather than the at least $550 million they could have been forced to pay.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“In 2018, a lawyer for Donald Trump denied the Times\u2019s reporting, saying the allegations of \u201cfraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory,\u201d adding, \u201cthere was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump has claimed on the campaign trail to be a self-made billionaire, and he has built trust with many voters on the premise that his business expertise can benefit the country. But the Times\u2019s reporting illustrates how Trump \u2014 who was earning $200,000 annually in today\u2019s dollars by the age of 3 \u2014 was propped up by family wealth.”<\/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":[221,170],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}