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Andy823

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Mon Sep 28, 2020, 11:14 AM Sep 2020

Trump's past tweets slammed others for not paying enough taxes and claimed he pays 'more'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweets-taxes-new-york-times-report-143707781.html

Ben Werschkul·DC Producer
Mon, September 28, 2020, 7:37 AM PDT

Over the years, President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed has featured messages slamming others for not paying taxes, bragging about how rich he is, criticizing those paying taxes overseas, and even claiming he pays “more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.”

It all reads differently now after The New York Times obtained decades of Trump’s tax information and found that he “has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.”

Perhaps nowhere is the disconnect between his public message and apparent private financial situation more stark than in the messages Trump has tweeted out over the years.
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It’s often been noted that there’s “always a tweet” buried somewhere in Trump’s timeline that relates to the scandal of the moment. In this case there are scores of them. With an assist from the always helpful Trump Twitter Archive, here are some of the starkest examples.


Read the article at the link above.

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