Trump: IRS Audits Me Every Year

Donald Trump gets audited every year by the IRS. The Republican frontrunner made the revelation in an interview today with radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Here’s the audio via the Hugh Hewitt Show:



And here’s the transcript, as provided by the show:

HH: All right, now let’s talk about Ted Cruz and tax returns. First of all, when do we get tax returns, Donald Trump, because Mitt Romney got killed on this four years ago. And you’ve got to get them out there as well.

DT: Well, we’ll get them out at some point, probably. I mean, I’m looking at it. I told me people the other day start looking at it. You know, I have very, very complex, I have, did you ever see the picture, I tweeted a picture where the returns are like two feet high…

HH: I didn’t.

DT: …which by the way it itself is ridiculous. But my returns are among the largest. I’m audited all the time by government. And I think every single year, I’ve had an audit for years. And you know, other people, friends of mine say they never get audited. I say congratulations. I have audits every year. So it’s, you know, one of those things. But we are working. They’re very complex papers, but we’re working on it.

HH: Will we get them soon, do you think?

DT: I don’t know. I have to ask my accounting people. But we’ll be working on it. Everything is very much, you know, I gave my financials ahead of schedule, much ahead of schedule. I had a long time to give them, and I gave them immediately. And they were very complex, also, and very big, and they turned out to be extremely good, much better, actually, than people thought.

HH: Yup.

DT: I think you would agree to that.

HH: I do. I do.

DT: You know, they were…

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