TRUMP TAXES: [Reporter: “there’s a New York Times story that came out about an hour ago that says that, when you came to the White House, you were paying about $750 a year in federal income tax… In your tax returns, sir, does that sound right, that you were paying a couple hundred dollars a year in federal income taxes?”]
“No. No. It’s fake news. It’s totally fake news. Made up. Fake. We went through the same stories. You could have asked me the same questions four years ago. I had to litigate this and talk about it. Totally fake news. No.
Actually, I paid tax, but — and you’ll see that as soon as my tax returns — it’s under audit. They’ve been under audit for a long time. The IRS does not treat me well. They treat me like the Tea Party — like they treated the Tea Party. And they don’t treat me well. They treat me very badly.
You have people in the IRS — they’re very — they treat me very, very badly. But they’re under audit. And when they’re not, I would be proud to show you. But that’s just fake news. The New York Times tried it — the same thing. They want to create a little bit of a story, a little bit of — they’re doing anything they can.
Not only — that’s the least of it. I mean, the stories that I read are so fake. They’re so phony.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 27, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 27, 2020