the new york times reported a story revealing donald trump might have been entitled to avoid paying federal income taxes for years. | ap photo by zachary warmbrodt 10/02/16 11:13 am edt two of the new york times reporters behind a story revealing donald trump might have been entitled to avoid paying federal income taxes for years said sunday that their bombshell is on solid legal footing. in an interview on abc's "this week," reporters david barstow and susanne craig said lawyers had backed up the paper's decision to publish the piece, which was based on 1995 tax records provided by an anonymous source who mailed the documents to craig. story continued below their reporting, including tracking down one of trump's former accountants in florida, found that a $916 million loss trump reported in 1995 would have entitled him to not pay federal income taxes for up to 18 years. a lawyer for trump has threatened legal action on the grounds that publishing the records was illegal and unauthorized by trump. "i don't think it<u+2019>s a crime to check your mailbox and that's what we did and we did some reporting," craig said on cnn's "reliable sources." "they told us that they may sue and we are comfortable with the story and went ahead with it." craig declined to confirm whether the times is sitting on more documents. "we<u+2019>re doing a lot of reporting around this," she said on cnn. "so, we<u+2019>re going to keep on going." by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
nyt reporters defend legality of trump tax report - politico
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