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In the year Donald Trump became president, a report from the New York Times has claimed he only paid 750 US Dollars in federal tax. The president has dismissed the story as fake news. Tom and Catherine look at the vocabulary in the news around this story. Related materials: Stop Saying! More phrasals: A disaster at sea: Video chapters 0:00 - Introduction 0:32 - The story 1:29- Headline 1: Trump lashes out at New York Times report alleging years of tax avoidance 4:27 - Headline 2: Will the New York Times taxes report sink Donald Trump? 6:57 - Headline 3: Tax bombshell reveals Trumps image is a sham 9:06 - Language summary The story The New York Times says it has two decades' worth of President Trump's tax returns and they show chronic losses and serial tax avoidance. It says he only paid 750 dollars in federal income taxes, the year he became president. He's dismissed the reports as fake
