Instead of addressing some of the real issues we’re facing in our country, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris thought it would be a good idea to attack President Trump over the misinformation that he only paid $750 in federal taxes the year he was elected into the White House.
“We now know because of great investigative journalism that Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes,” Harris said. “When I first heard about it, I literally said, ‘You mean $750,000?’ Nope $750.”
Harris is referring to the recent report by The New York Times claiming they had secret information on the president’s 2016 and 2017 taxes. The Times also reported that Trump paid no federal income taxes for ten of the fifteen years prior to becoming president.
“We now know Donald Trump owes, and is in debt for $400 million, and just so that everyone is clear, when we say in debt – it means you owe money to somebody,” Harris argued.
“And it’d be really good to know who the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief owes money to,” she added, “because the American people have a right to know what is influencing the president’s decisions and is he making those decisions on the best interests of the American people….or self-interest?”
President Trump brushed off the report calling it “fake news” and said his tax returns would be available as soon as the IRS completes their audit.
Vice President Pence did not shy away from the accusations and said, “The American people have a president who’s a businessman, a job creator, he’s paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes – payroll taxes, property taxes, he’s created tens of thousands of American jobs.”
“The president said those public reports were not accurate,” he continued, “and the president also released literally stacks of financial disclosures, the American people can view.”
The president did not directly respond to Harris’s accusations but did give praise to his vice president in a tweet.
“Mike Pence is doing GREAT! She is a gaffe machine,” Trump wrote.
