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Fresh coverage on April 16 kept Trump’s long-running financial transparency problem in the spotlight, with New York investigators and courts continuing to build a case that his business empire’s numbers have been massaged for years. The screwup is not just that the allegations exist; it is that the paper trail keeps making the whole defense look thinner, not stronger.
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Fresh coverage on April 16 kept Trump’s long-running financial transparency problem in the spotlight, with New York investigators and courts continuing to build a case that his business empire’s numbers have been massaged for years. The screwup is not just that the allegations exist; it is that the paper trail keeps making the whole defense look thinner, not stronger.
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Fresh coverage on April 16 kept Trump’s long-running financial transparency problem in the spotlight, with New York investigators and courts continuing to build a case that his business empire’s numbers have been massaged for years. The screwup is not just that the allegations exist; it is that the paper trail keeps making the whole defense look thinner, not stronger.
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