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'genius' amid tax revelations</h1> <div class="intro"> <p>Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie said Trump's declared loss of almost a billion dollars on his 1995 tax return demonstrated his business acumen</p> </div> <ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list"> <li class="author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name"><a href="/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/author/tim-walker" title="Tim Walker">Tim Walker</a></span> US Correspondent </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/https://twitter.com/timwalker">@timwalker</a> </li> <li title="2 October 2016 19:31 London"><time data-microtimes="{"published":"1475427180000","display":0,"changed":"1475433070000"}" datetime="19:31, 2 October 2016" unixtime="1475433070000">Sunday 2 October 2016 19:31 BST</time></li> <li class="comments"> <a href="#commentsDiv" id="comment-count" class="icon-comment"></a> </li> </ul> <div id="gigya-share-btns-1"></div> </header> <figure itemprop="associatedMedia image" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" class="featured-media medium-width"> <meta itemprop="representativeOfPage" content="true"> <meta itemprop="url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/02/18/giuliani-christie.jpg"> <meta itemprop="width" content="2018"> <meta itemprop="height" content="1345"> <picture title="giuliani-christie.jpg">  <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/02/18/giuliani-christie.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 620px) and (max-width: 929px)"/> <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/02/18/giuliani-christie.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 930px) and (max-width: 1239px)"/> <source 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billion dollars on his 1995 income tax return.</p> <p>“He’s a genius,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told <em>ABC News</em> on Sunday. “Absolute genius... This is a perfectly legal application of the tax code. And he would’ve been fool not to take advantage of it.”</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><iframe height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935if_/http://abcnews.go.com/video/embed?id=42508164" style="border:none;" width="640"></iframe></figure><p>The Trump campaign has threatened legal action against the <em>New York Times</em>, which on Saturday <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-tax-return-1995-losses-avoid-paying-leak-times-a7341196.html">published a portion</a> of the property mogul’s 1995 tax returns, posted to the newspaper by an anonymous source.</p> <div class="relatedlinkslist inline-block-related-list inline-block-left"> <h2 class="box-title">Read more</h2> <div class="relatedlinkslist-content" style="min-height: 10px;"> <ul class="related"><li><a data-author="Tim Walker..." data-nid="7324306" data-publish_date="27-09-2016" href="/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-tax-returns-explained-wont-release-hiding-bombshell-a7324306.html">Donald Trump’s tax returns explained: why won’t he release them, and are they hiding a ‘bombshell’?</a></li> <li><a data-author="Harriet Agerholm..." data-nid="7341621" data-publish_date="02-10-2016" href="/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-taxes-1995-us-election-presidential-a7341621.html">Hillary Clinton responds to Donald Trump tax 'bombshell'</a></li> <li><a data-author="Jenna Johnson..." data-nid="7341376" data-publish_date="02-10-2016" href="/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-taxes-us-election-2016-hillary-clinton-republican-democrat-a7341376.html">Donald Trump: Republican candidate goes off script at rally after tax revelation</a></li> <li><a data-author="David Usborne..." data-nid="7341196" data-publish_date="02-10-2016" href="/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-tax-return-1995-losses-avoid-paying-leak-times-a7341196.html">Donald Trump’s leaked 1995 tax return shows loss so enormous ‘he could have avoided paying taxes for years’</a></li> </ul></div> </div> <p>The pages showed Mr Trump declared a $916m loss after several financial disasters including a failed airline venture and three underperforming Atlantic City casinos, which, the <em>Times</em> noted, “could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years.”</p> <p>New Jersey Governor Chris Christie touted the story as evidence of Mr Trump’s financial know-how, telling <em>Fox News</em>, “There’s no one who’s shown more genius in their way to manoeuvre about the tax code.”</p> <p>Messrs Christie and Giuliani were at pains to point out that Mr Trump’s offsetting of his vast losses against future income was entirely legal. The Clinton campaign and other opponents of the Republican nominee have suggested the documents show he is not the expert businessman he claims, and that he has failed to pay his fair share.</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-video"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"> <div class="bc_container"> <video id="5143144115001" data-account="624246174001" data-player="2d3d4a83-ba40-464e-9bfb-2804b076bf67" data-embed="default" data-video-id="5143144115001" class="video-js" controls=""></video><script src="//web.archive.org/web/20161003173935js_/http://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/2d3d4a83-ba40-464e-9bfb-2804b076bf67_default/index.min.js"></script></div>  </div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Trump's Tax returns explained</div></div> <p>“Trump is a billion-dollar loser who won’t release his taxes because they’ll expose him as a spoiled, rich brat who lost the millions he inherited from his father,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement.</p> <p>Mr Trump is still <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-tax-returns-explained-wont-release-hiding-bombshell-a7324306.html">refusing to release his tax returns</a>, but his campaign not deny the substance of the <em>New York Times</em> report <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-campaign-statement1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in a statement</a> released on Saturday. “Mr Trump is a highly-skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required,” the statement said.</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/https://twitter.com/hashtag/failing?src=hash">#failing</a>@nytimes</p> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/782541307168391168">October 2, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161003173935js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p>“That being said, Mr Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes, along with very substantial charitable contributions.”</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><div style="width:100%;margin:10px 0;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="521" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003173935if_/https://w.graphiq.com/w/5W7Yr63EuMt" style="position:static;vertical-align:top;margin:0 auto;display:block;width:600px !important;max-width:100%;min-height:521px !important;max-height:none !important;border:none;overflow:hidden;" width="600"></iframe> <div 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