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forest444

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5. And they may not have been lies at all (more Politifact bias favoring GOP)
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:12 AM
Sep 2016

One of them, that "the only two of Trump's tax returns we have show he paid no taxes," is technically false - but in all likelihood not as much as Politifact suggests.

The two latest Trump tax returns ('78 and '79) showed that no federal taxes were paid, so even if the three prior to that ('75 to '77) show that he did, it may be safe to say he's not paid any since.

We know this, as Hillary pointed out because of a New Jersey casino license he applied for in 1980 - which at the time required divulging at least 5 years of recent tax returns.

Trump, after all, refuses to release any federal tax returns since 1980.

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