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: Billionaire activist Tom Steyer on ABC News' 'The Investigation' podcast

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“What Michael Cohen said was he used his tax returns in one way to minimize taxes. He used his asset estimates in another way to raise loans from banks. That's a felony. And I think that he has not released his taxes because there was an inconsistency in his behavior that is illegal and in fact you g…”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Tax Returns, Felony

“I pay really high tax rates. So if you're asking me am I embarrassed about what I make, how I make it, or what I have paid—no.”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Tax Rates

“He's a failed businessman. He's a great reality TV star. He had an absolutely successful TV show. He is a incredibly successful and effective communicator. But if you look at his record in business, he took a huge inheritance and blew up a series of projects and went bankrupt and got bailed out by t…”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, The Apprentice, Failed Businessman

“The American people have been left out of this conversation.”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Impeachment, American People

“I don't believe it's comparable. I think that you want to compare it to Bill Clinton. But I think that what's much more comparable is President Nixon that in fact we had a corrupt president surrounded by corrupt people that in fact his personal corruption slopped over into everything that he did. An…”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Impeachment, Bill Clinton

“Actually what he did was he made an illegal campaign contribution to cover up a previous sexual alliance. But what the actual law he broke was not by having sex, but what he did was he committed a felony while in the White House.”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Impeachment, illegal campaign contribution, Felony, White House

“We're going to ask in fact that the American people can get the truth directly because when in fact it happens what you're going to see is the Americans will be absolutely enthralled. We have had two real hearings in the last year. One of them was Brett Kavanaugh one of them was Michael Cohen. Both…”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Impeachment, Brett Kavanaugh, Michael Cohen

“If you're the president of the United States does that mean you are no longer subject to the Constitution and the laws of the United States? If you want to make that statement that to me seems like a gigantic leap from where we started and where we should be.”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Corrupt, Constitution

“And what we were saying is we have the most corrupt president in American history. And here's somebody who we've we had seen clearly at that point with someone who was corrupt who was breaking his oath to the American people in the Constitution and that we thought that he would continue to do so and…”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

Tagged: Donald Trump, Corrupt, Constitution