FAKE NEWS ALERT! New York Times Lies About Trump’s Taxes In Ongoing Smear Campaign

President Trump contested a report from The New York Times claiming the president had not paid his federal income taxes for 10 of the past 15 years. He called the story “fake news” and argued that he has paid large federal and state taxes.

Less than an hour after the story broke in the newspaper Trump held a press briefing and said, “It’s fake news, it’s totally made up. Everything was wrong, they are so bad.”

According to the New York Times report, the year President Trump was elected he paid only $750 and taxes to the federal government then $750 his first year in the White House.

Trump’s net worth is rumored to be in the billions and he denied ever paying such a small amount in taxes.

He said, “I’ve paid a lot and I’ve paid a lot of state income taxes too.”

Even before he won the election in 2016 Trump was heavily criticized for not releasing his tax filing. He has always kept his tax filings very private and is the only president in modern times to not release them to the public.

Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump organization also denied accusations from The New York Times that the president paid such a small amount of taxes. He made a statement saying 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’ story is riddled with gross inaccuracies.  Over the past decade the President has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government,” Garten argued. “While we tried to explain this to the Times, they refused to listen and rejected our repeated request that they show us any of the documentation they purport to be relying on to substantiate their claims.”

“Obviously this is just part of the Times’ ongoing smear campaign in the run up to the election,” Garten added.

The New York Times has not released Trump’s tax filings they claimed to have received so they have no real evidence of backing up their story.