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They have not finished.
"We have more runs and strings to shoot, we will just continue," investigative journalist Susanne Craig told CNN's Brian Stelter in Reliable Sources on Sunday. "We received a lot of information."
Craig, who shared the story of David Barstow and Russ Buettner, said he hoped he would be a second part.
Craig said the story "will have legs" and that it will take a long time for people to digest.
"This establishes a factual account of her life that contrasts sharply with the one that is widely disseminated now," she said, referring to Trump's image as a self-proclaimed billionaire.
The reporters began by reviewing the 2005 tax return that was released in March 2017. They started by asking some simple questions about how Trump had made money that year.
Craig said that there was not a single moment when they realized that they had a great story. She called the process a "true journey of discovery".
"One thing led to another, and then we started contacting sources and getting an extraordinary amount of material," she said. She and her colleagues spent a year and a half browsing the documents.
The study helped. Craig said the sources who spoke to the Times reporters might say they knew what they were talking about.
"They had the impression that the story that Donald Trump had peddled the fact that he was a self-proclaimed billionaire and that he was getting very little help from his father was just wrong, many of the people we talked to knew Fred Trump and just knew he was a bald lie. "
The tax survey made the front page of The Times newspaper on Wednesday. Some media critics said the reports were somewhat eclipsed by the collapse of the Brett Kavanaugh controversy in early October. But Craig said the report was released when he was ready – and has already sparked follow-up queries from New York regulators.
The paper also made the unusual decision to reprint the 13,000-word report Sunday as well. The editor said he could not think of another time when they reprinted a special report like this one.
A 30 minute documentary on the report is also in preparation. The same documentary team that directed "The Fourth Estate" for Showtime is also associated with this survey, and the resulting film, titled "The Family Business: Trump and Taxes," will air on Sunday night.
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