Ahead Of First Presidential Debate, Almost 1,000,000 Americans Have Already Voted
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🗓️ 28 September 2020
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NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson previews the debate, and political correspondent Scott Detrow looks at what to expect from Joe Biden based on his performance in past debates.
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| 0:00.0 | Back in the late 1970s, when he was trying to open a new casino, Donald Trump handed over |
| 0:05.4 | some tax returns to gambling officials in the state of New Jersey. |
| 0:09.4 | According to those returns, for two years, it was in 1978 and 1979, he paid absolutely |
| 0:15.5 | nothing in federal income tax. |
| 0:17.5 | I don't mind releasing. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm under a routine audit and it'll be released. |
| 0:21.5 | During a presidential debate four years ago, Hillary Clinton said maybe that was the reason |
| 0:26.4 | Trump had been reluctant to release his tax returns. |
| 0:29.4 | The only years that anybody has ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn |
| 0:33.9 | them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license and they showed |
| 0:39.2 | he didn't pay any federal income tax. |
| 0:41.7 | So it's paid zero. |
| 0:44.1 | That means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools. |
| 0:49.6 | That was 2016. |
| 0:51.8 | This Tuesday night, there's another debate in another election and this time we know a lot |
| 0:56.6 | more. |
| 0:57.7 | As the president paid just $750 in federal income tax for the years 2016 and 2017 and for |
| 1:04.9 | 10 of the 15 years before that, he paid no federal income taxes at all. |
| 1:10.2 | That's according to a story published Sunday by The New York Times, which said Trump basically |
| 1:14.5 | told the government he lost more money than he made. |
| 1:17.8 | It's a story that could play a role in Tuesday night's presidential debate, which was already |
| 1:21.9 | going to be pretty dramatic. |
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