Angus King on Trump Tax Report: This Isn’t Going to Hurt the President

‘The truest thing he said in the campaign in 2016 is if I shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight, I won’t lose any votes’

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KING: "I am not a student of Donald Trump and you know, I knew him from watching him on TV and seeing his name on buildings, I always assumed he had a great deal of his fortune came from his father one way or another, and by the way, there’s nothing wrong with transferring from one generation to the other, I think the question in this case was, was it done in such a was as to evade taxes. And I'm going to leave to the authorities, the IRS, the tax lawyers, the tax authorities in New York to make the judgments, but it’s a very powerful piece. And by the way, Alisyn, this is not going to hurt Donald Trump. He has developed a persona where his supporters — if he gets attacked by 'The New York Times,' his approval rating among his supporters will actually go up. The truest thing he said in the campaign in 2016 was if I shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight, I won’t lose any votes. And I think this is another case where ironically an expose of this kind, even assuming it’s entirely valid I don’t think will significantly undermine his support, it might actually help him."

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