UNITED STATES, Sept. 28 -- A bombshell story by the New York Times revealed that US President Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, and another $750 in "his first year in the White House". Moreover, the story reports that he paid "no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years - largely because he reported losing much more money than he made". The most damaging information from the story is that he paid "no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that the Times examined".

The revelation comes weeks before the November 3 presidential election, and before the first presidential debate of the year-- on Tuesday---between Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States....