President Trump threw cold water on a report that he paid about 25 percent of his income in federal taxes in 2005, asking if anyone really believed that a reporter would just be handed one of his old tax returns.

The Daily Beast reported on two pages of Trump’s 2005 income tax return, showing he paid about $5 million in income taxes and $31 million in alternative minimum tax that year on about $150 million in income.

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