CNN's Lemon Trashes 'Con Man in Chief' President Trump Over Decades Old Tax Returns

Ryan Foley | May 9, 2019
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CNN host Don Lemon reacted with glee Tuesday when The New York Times published details from President Trump's tax returns from 1985 to 1994. As the tax returns showed that President Trump suffered enormous losses during that time period and paid little to no income tax because of it, Lemon called President Trump "our con man in chief," after declaring that "the President of the United States is a fraud and a con man." If Lemon had bothered to do his homework, he would have found out that this Earth-shattering news has been out in the open for a long time.  The New York tabloids heavily covered Trump's financial woes and Trump himself admitted on the pilot episode of The Apprentice that "it wasn't always so easy. About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble. I was billions of dollars in debt."  In spite of his past difficulties, Trump pointed out that 13 years later, "my company's bigger than it ever was and stronger than it ever was."  So, Lemon's premise that President Trump was lying about his success is just not true. 

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