Donald Trump's claims to being one of the wealthiest, most successful and brilliant businessmen was created with smoke and mirrors using his father's wealth, media-created myths, lots of enormous loans, instances of tax fraud, along with false claims and unkept promises. The details are laid out in a new book by my guests Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, two New York Times reporters who have been investigating Trump's business practices and finances ever since he campaigned for the presidency in 2016. One of their early clues came from several pages of Trump's tax documents that were leaked to Susanne Craig in a manila envelope she found in her New York Times mailbox.
Craig and Buettner won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. Now they've written a new book called "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune And Created The Illusion Of Success."
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