He added that without a retraction and an apology, Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization would consider “immediate legal proceedings” against Mr. O’Donnell and NBCUniversal.
Deutsche Bank said Tuesday that it had tax documents being sought in a congressional inquiry into Mr. Trump’s finances, igniting a storm over what they may say.
Mr. O’Donnell’s statement on Wednesday was likely to be fuel for Mr. Trump, who has attacked specific media outlets repeatedly since Tuesday, including The New York Times, Axios, The Washington Post and even Fox News.
On Tuesday evening, before his show, Mr. O’Donnell wrote on Twitter: “A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers. If true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin.”
Mr. O’Donnell said on his show that the “co-signers are Russian oligarchs.”
But the MSNBC host also suggested at times that his reporting might not have been that robust, repeating during the hour that it would be explosive “if true, and I stress the ‘if true’ part of this.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/business/media/lawrence-odonnell-trump-claims.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
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