Yesterday the New York Times published a "bombshell" report on Trump's tax returns.
Whatever their intentions were, the New York Times just unintentionally helped build the case that the Russian collusion theory is a hoax.
Claiming to have “obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades,” the NYT admits its findings amount to problems most businesses deal with: “struggling properties, vast write-offs, [and] an audit battle.”
The article also admits “the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled,” and also kills off the idea that President Trump’s finances were somehow linked to Russia. The piece reads: “Nor do [the tax returns] reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.”
Trump called the central claim the NYT makes – that he only paid $750.00 in federal income taxes – “fake news” in a press conference on Sunday evening.
A lawyer for the President said: “Over the past decade, President Trump has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.”
The New York Times failed to include the details of the returns in its reporting, admitting in its own article: “The Times declined to provide the records, in order to protect its sources.”
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican State Attorneys General in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Trump held the meeting to discuss allegations of online censorship against conservatives. Photographer: Oliver Contreras/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images