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Almost two years ago, journalist Susanne Craig found a brown envelope in her mail to the New York Times, sent anonymously by someone working in the Trump Tower.
"There were three pages of Donald Trump's tax return and you're as though that could not be true?" she told CBC News at the time. Craig said the documents showed that in 1995, Trump "was bleeding money and actually had losses of a billion dollars".
These papers led him on a quest to learn how Trump could claim to be one of the richest men in America, only ten years later.
This week, his work culminated in a sensational story on the front page of the Times that states that Donald Trump has committed tax evasion.
"It was not a trivial thing for the newspaper to do it," she told CBC News this week, about the 14,000-word story that goes further than anything else which has been reported in the past by accusing Trump of financial deception.
"The New York Times, to our knowledge, has never accused a sitting president of multiple outright fraud accounts – I think we have borne this charge all along," she said. About the 18-month survey conducted with fellow Times reporters, David Barstow and Russ Buettner.
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The trio spent months collecting 100,000 pages of documents, mostly financial, and examined them to see how Trump was building his personal fortune. Craig equates in a sense to assemble "a puzzle of a million white pieces".
Most of the material concerns Fred, Trump's father, who became one of the wealthiest property developers in the United States at the time of his death in 1999.
Follow the money
The story relies on the documents to meticulously point out that much of the wealth that Donald Trump claimed publicly when he began to draw public attention in the late 1970s actually belonged to his father.
About twenty years later, before his father's death, Trump and his two siblings had helped him forward his patrimony through a series of screen companies, thus avoiding hundreds of millions dollars in taxes.
"We started to gather all the ways that … Fred Trump was getting money for his kids," Craig said.
Donald Trump, on the right, has often said that he had only received a small credit to launch his business empire from his father, the far left, false statement, according to New York Times. (The Associated Press)
In the end, the story takes a critical look at Trump's persistent insight into his business acumen – and shows that his financial recovery is due in large part to a combination of crooks with the estate and Taxes.
Craig will not say how the Times managed to collect a quantity of confidential financial records.
"It's the most incredible story, and it's a story I can not share, because we told our sources that we would not share with the world where we had them."
In a letter to the Times, Trump's lawyer, Charles J. Harder, described the report as "highly defamatory and extremely inaccurate" and White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders described it as "highly defamatory and extremely inaccurate". of "totally false attack".
Craig acknowledges that in the polarized US policy, the record can not change the minds of the voters who support Trump.
"It is simply important for me, a journalist, that the financial biography of the 45th President of the United States be well prepared," she said.
Susanne Craig, a reporter for the New York Times, was part of an investigative team that spent 18 months reviewing how Donald Trump had built his fortune. (Twitter)
She pointed out that Trump's repeatedly told story as a self-taught story had been taken up as a fact repeatedly in the cover of American news, including by The Times.
"They say that a lie passed down in history becomes a repeating truth … again and again, then suddenly, that is accepted as a fact and that's what happened to Donald Trump, "she said.
"It's incredible the inaccurate number of errors in the biography that he has largely overthrown and the reporters, whose journal you've known over the years, have repeated it as a done and I hope this report restores the trajectory. "
Also this week in The Investigators with Diana Swain, Shashank Bengali, a Los Angeles Times reporter, said he was shocked to learn that some readers thought he was negotiating the illegal sale parts of the body. And Katie Simpson, of CBC, tells what it was like to spend a year covering the NAFTA negotiations.
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