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Taxes, Trump, and Torment of GOP Donors

Also: Where is Steve Mnuchin?

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Episode Notes

Virginia Heffernan talks to producer Sally Herships and reporter Sarah Kleiner of The Heist, a new investigative podcast from the Center for Public Integrity covering a tax-centric political swindle and how power works in Trump’s presidency. Herships and Kleiner talk in-depth about the series, the benefits specific Republican donors have received, and what it’s like to try to track down Steve Mnuchin—or find out anything about him.

Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Richard Stanislaw.

Further Reading:

The Heist, a podcast from the Center for Public Integrity

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A podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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