.MaddowBlog: Why it matters that Pres. Trump’s sister stepped down from the federal bench.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 4/11/19, 9:00 PM ET Mnuchin's open defiance of tax law a new test of enforcement Rachel Maddow looks at the plain direction of the tax law supporting the request by Congress to the IRS for Donald Trump’s tax returns and wonders how much longer Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin can get away with openly defying the law. share tweet email save Embed It was six months ago when the New York Times first published a devastating report on Donald Trump’s finances.
Donald Trump, however, was not the sole beneficiary of his family’s scheme. Consider, for example, the president’s sister. The court inquiry stemmed from complaints filed last October, after an investigation by The New York Times found that the Trumps had engaged in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the inherited wealth of Mr. Trump and his siblings. Judge Barry not only benefited financially from most of those tax schemes, The Times found; she was also in a position to influence the actions taken by her family.
It’s the same scheme that appears to have benefited her brother – who’s the current president of the United States.
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