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Donald Trump tax return response: 'Nobody ever heard of' Pulitzer prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston | |
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Donald Trump has responded to the leak of his 2005 tax returns, questioning how the journalist behind the story came to obtain the documents. | Donald Trump has responded to the leak of his 2005 tax returns, questioning how the journalist behind the story came to obtain the documents. |
"Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, 'went to his mailbox' and found my tax returns?" the President tweeted. | |
He went on to call NBC News "FAKE NEWS" after their presenter Rachael Maddow showed two-pages of Mr Trump's tax returns from 2005. | |
In Mr Trump's tweet, he said "nobody ever heard of" David Cay Johnson, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who claimed to have received Mr Trump's tax returns in the post from an unknown source. | |
His income and tax returns from show he made more than $150m (£123m) in 2005 and paid $38m (£31m) in income taxes. | |
In a later tweet, the President suggested Snoop Dogg should be arrested for pretending to shoot him in a music video. | |
"Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!" he said. | |
The artist has been criticised for firing a toy gun that shoots a flag with the word "bang" on it at a Trump character in his music video. |
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