Who Leaked Trump's Tax Returns? David Cay Johnston’s Family Bullied By President’s Supporters

David Cay Johnston, the reporter who received a filing of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns in his mailbox before bringing it to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and his own government watchdog site DCReport, said he and his family have faced harassment and angry phone calls from the president’s supporters since the news broke Tuesday night.

In a series of tweets, he both called attention to the issue and mocked a staple component of Trump’s own Twitter posts. He also referenced what he called the “disturbing sign of how Trump damages civil debate.”

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Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has written a book on Trump’s real estate career and family empire, said he received the 1040 filing in the mail unsolicited, from an unidentified source. The document revealed that the former reality TV show star made $152 million in 2005 and paid $36.6 million thanks to the Alternative Minimum Tax, a supplemental tax meant to keep the ultra-wealthy from taking advantage of loopholes—something Trump has suggested repealing. Trump also wrote off a loss of $103.2 million from a tax shelter previously exposed by the New York Times, which had obtained a 1995 filing.

The White House said in a statement minutes before Maddow’s teased the release of the filing that Trump had paid $38 million in taxes on $152 million in income in 2005 after taking into account “a large-scale depreciation.” Trump’s administration also claimed the filing had been “illegally published” and proved Trump “was one of the most successful businessmen in the world, with a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required.”

Johnston called the White House statement and claims from Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., false.

Trump himself has called the report “FAKE NEWS!” and labeled Johnston a journalist “nobody ever heard of,” but quickly faced a direct rebuttal from the reporter himself.

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