“I’m being audited now for two or three years, so I can’t do it until the audit is finished, obviously. And I think people would understand that,” the Republican front-runner said at Thursday night’s Republican debate in Houston.
The Internal Revenue Service and tax experts, though, say he can.
“Nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information,” IRS spokesman Anthony Burke said in an e-mail.
If he said “won’t” instead of “can’t”, that would be truthful to me. But “can’t”, that’s not truthful.
Further in the article:
“I’m always audited by the IRS, which I think is very unfair — I don’t know, maybe because of religion, maybe because of something else, maybe because I’m doing this, although this is just recently,” Trump told CNN. “Maybe because of the fact that I’m a strong Christian, and I feel strongly about it, and maybe there’s a bias.”
Seriously. Audited because he’s a Christian? As is most of America? This man is not dumb, he knows that is not the reason. He is trying to rally the troops but getting them riled up, that’s what he’s doing. I would consider this another white lie to stir the pot.
