CLAIM: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said that “Donald Trump hasn’t paid any federal tax in the last 15 years.”
VERDICT: FALSE. This recycles an old claim about Trump’s taxes that has long been debunked.
Walz broke out a false claim at the vice presidential debate on CBS News on Tuesday night that Democrats made against Trump from 2015 to 2020, which is that he did not pay federal taxes. That is simply false.
Again and again — whether Rachel Maddow’s widely-mocked exposé on MSNBC in 2017, which showed that Trump had, in fact, paid significant taxes; or the New York Times‘ controversial report in 2020, which showed Trump had been telling the truth about disputes with the IRS — Democrats came up short in their attacks
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