The former president of the united states, donald trump, stayed silent. Fbi agents searched his home, marilado and florida, apparently looking for classified documents. The ex-president also lost on appeal in an effort to prevent a house committee from getting hold of his tax records. And yet another estimation, this one by the new york state attorney general, into what might have been tax avoidance practices at his family business.
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