Jesse Eisinger
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287 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 29 May
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So there are billionaires often who pay zero in federal income tax, but the more important thing was that they pay very little as a fraction of their kind of overall wealth growth.
Yeah, so, I mean, I don't know if he has much of an inner life.
The president, did he care?
You mean, was he upset or offended about having his taxes leaked?
Yeah.
He, Trump, repeatedly acted as if he was violated for this.
Now, as you just said, what he was doing was violating a norm of behavior that had lasted for about 50 years for major presidential candidates.
they released their tax returns.
So underlying that leak was this extraordinary violation of what we think is a fundamental kind of aspect of transparency when we come to our major political leaders.
So what he did was he waited for a while and then he sued the IRS in one of the most extraordinary actions that any president has taken in American history.
It was so mind-bending and weird and outrageous.
It's actually pretty hard to kind of understand what happened.
But what he did was he, in his personal capacity—
sued the federal government, which he runs, for $10 billion for having allowed the leak of his tax returns.
There had to be steps that were taken before he could even
effectuate this lawsuit.
And the first step was that he's taken over the executive branch of the federal government, the administrative state of the federal government.
Obviously, he is the executive.
He was legitimately elected.
But we had norms of independence for our federal agencies that had grown up really in the post-Watergate era, but had been developing for a long time.
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