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Sure, George Santos is a liar, but have Republicans seen that orange dude? [1]
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Date: 2023-01-04
And then there’s the small matter of Trump’s recently released tax returns, which are packed with even more lies. So as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board noted Tuesday, Santos may be the Prince of Lies, but Donald Trump remains the undisputed king.
The tax returns show the famously empathy-deficient Trump gave zero to charity in 2020. This despite a 2016 campaign promise to donate his presidential salary to charity. So he lied about that. Trump also claimed during the 2016 campaign that he couldn’t release his taxes because they were being audited, making him the first major-party presidential nominee in half a century to refuse the voters that crucial bit of transparency. It was a weak excuse (an audit doesn’t preclude a taxpayer from releasing his or her own records). The supposed release restriction was a lie. The House committee revealed last week that, in fact, Trump’s 2015 and 2016 taxes weren’t audited until 2019. So he just plain lied about that, too.
The Post-Dispatch then arrived at this painfully obvious conclusion: “It should be food for thought to Republicans who tsk-tsk at Santos but continue actively or tacitly enabling the Liar-in-Chief of their party.”
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Of course, Trump has been lying about his taxes for years and years and years. Take, for instance, this exchange from the first 2020 presidential debate:
x WALLACE: No, Mr. President, I’m asking you a question. Will you tell us how much you paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017?
TRUMP: Millions of dollars.
WALLACE: So not 750?
TRUMP: Millions of dollars. And you’ll get to see it. And you’ll get to see it. pic.twitter.com/Tz1IY3kyWl — Acyn (@Acyn) December 30, 2022
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