He only paid $750 in federal tax the year he won the presidency, he paid no taxes in 10 of the last 15 years, and the returns show struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
Finally! We’ve been waiting for years for these. No wonder he fought so hard to keep them secret. Thanks to whomever released these to the Times.
“The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the I.R.S. portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes. Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president.”