Russ Buettner

Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig are investigative journalists who spent years at The New York Times reporting on Donald Trump's finances. Their 2018 investigation into the Trump family's tax strategies, which drew on over 100,000 pages of confidential tax return data, won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. Lucky Loser represents the culmination of that reporting work, expanding the investigation into a full narrative account of how the Trump family fortune was built, transferred, and transformed across two generations.