The two pages show Trump wrote off more than $100 million in business losses to reduce his federal taxes in 2005. They also show Trump paid $36.5 million in federal income taxes on reported income of $152M, which is an effective tax rate of 24%.
The problem with Trump's claim is that the White House had already confirmed the authenticity of the document to news outlets. Ooops!
David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer-prize winning reporter, who had received the tax return and reported on it first, tweeted:
Gee, Donald, your White House confirmed my story. POTUS fake Tweet. Sad!
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