Donald Trump has threatened to sue The New York Times for publishing leaked
pages from his tax returns, and the paper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, said
he would do so even if it meant risking jail time. We speak with two
investigative journalists who report on Trump’s taxes and describe his legal
threats in letters and phone calls, and their reaction. "Mr. Trump, especially
given the positions he’s staked out ... would represent a really significant
threat to the tradition of an independent free press in the United States," says
David Barstow of The New York Times. "I think Donald Trump represents a clear
and present danger to the liberties of the people, to the idea of the First
Amendment," agrees David Cay Johnston, now a columnist for The Daily Beast.
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