October 02, 2016, 03:53 pm
NYT reporter: No comment on if there are more Trump docs
By Jessie Hellmann
Susanne Craig, the reporter behind the New York Times story about Donald Trump's tax returns, declined to say Sunday whether she has more documents she will report on.
Craig reported Saturday that a $916 million loss Trump reported on his 1995 income tax returns could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years.
Craig had received fragments of Trump's 199 tax records, anonymously mailed to her.
"Are you sitting on more documents?" Brian Stelter asked Craig during her appearence on his CNN show "Reliable Sources."
"We're doing a lot of reporting around this so we're going to keep going," she replied.
"So that's a yes? You have more documents besides the three?"
"Maybe a no comment," Craig replied.
Craig said she received the pages from Trump's tax returns Sept. 23. They were in a manila envelope, postmarked New York, N.Y., and had a return address of The Trump Organization.
Craig and other reporters confirmed the legitimacy of the documents by consulting with Jack Mitnick, the accountant who prepared and signed Trump's tax returns.
Trump didn't challenge or confirm the tax records, Craig said, but threatened with legal action if they were to publish them.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298901-nyt-reporter-on-if-theres-more-trump-docs-no-comment
