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On the recordSeptember 26, 2020
Yes, basically -- well, first of all, I paid a lot and I paid a lot of state income taxes, too. The New York state charges a lot and I paid a lot of money in state. It will all be revealed. It's going to come out but after the audit -- after the -- I'm being -- they're doing their assessment. We've been negotiating for a long time. Things get settled like in the IRS. But right now when you're under audit, you don't do that. So we're under audit. But the story is a total fake and all of this -- we had the same exact questions usually asked by the same people and that took place four years ago. You remember.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Trump responds to questions about his taxes, claiming he has paid a lot in state taxes and dismissing the New York Times report as fake news.

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