Headline Roundup September 28, 2020
New York Times Releases Investigation of Trump's Tax Returns; Trump Calls it 'Fake News'
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I havenβt seen President Trumpβs tax returns. Iβm going to start there. No matter how many times Iβve been asked today to offer my βtakeβ on the returns, I canβt give a more honest answer than, βI havenβt seen the returns.β
I have, however, read the very detailed article from the New York Times NYT +0.2%, which can be found here. Iβm not inclined to summarize it for you - you can read it on your own - and Iβm not going to do an op-ed on the piece. If...
The Times obtained Donald Trumpβs tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years β largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.
As the president wages a re-election campaign...
President Trump denied a report that said he paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and his first year in office.
The New York Times published a report on Trump's financial information, which he has long kept out of public view, about half an hour before the president held a news conference in the White House on Sunday. The report also comes two days before the first presidential debate against Joe Biden and 37 days ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Asked to respond to the New York...
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