Trump deflects questions about taxes, but a new issue comes up in the first discussion

But there was peaceful concern within the campaign, where aides noted the daily tracking numbers of Ramsusen reports, particularly a radical assessment of how the president was progressing, with support following the tax story. In Mr. Trump’s circle, he had to point fingers at how the issue is handled and was reluctant to discuss with him the issue he is sensitive to.

Many of the president’s advisers argued that such stories had never damaged his standing with key supporters in the past and that this would be no exception. Although they acknowledged that Mr. Trump must prepare an effective response to the debate, The first confrontation between the two candidates, The case in Cleveland is scheduled for 9 p.m., at Western Reserve University. Some aides suggested that trying to penalize the same answer he said earlier, or that taking advantage of the tax code is just “smart” for a business person, while portraying himself as an employment creator.

Campaign spokesman Tim Murtho dismissed the report as false because the president had paid “tens of millions of dollars in taxes,” without specifying whether they were federal income taxes or directly denied that he had paid anything for years. “Voters have already been prosecuted,” he told Fox News. “The president has released more than 100 pages of financial records. And the Americans gave their verdict in 2016 and elected him president. There is nothing that can change one’s mind. “

Still, some details, especially paying only 7 50,750 in federal income tax for two years in a row and reducing hairstyle costs, among other things, may resonate in a visual way. Democrats hoped they could provoke a sense of injustice with everyday Americans who pay themselves too much and can’t write off the cost of hair.

Representative of New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tweeted That she paid thousands of dollars in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017 – while she was still working as a bartender in New York City. “He contributed less to funding our communities than waitresses and undocumented immigrants,” he wrote. The attack was exacerbated by a biden campaign video showing common income taxes paid by various workers.

The Biden campaign also began selling T-shirts, buttons and stickers that said, “I paid more income tax than Donald Trump.” And on Monday the campaign launched a launched online “Trump Tax Calculator” Allowing people to calculate how much more they paid in federal income tax than Mr. Trump. “Mad? Ours too, ”he said on the web page of the tax calculator. “If you join our campaign to elect Biden and make him a ‘billionaire’ like Donald Trump, pay his fair share.”