On Monday's Kelly File, Megyn Kelly invited on Boris Epshteyn, a senior Trump campaign adviser and GOP strategist, and liberal syndicated radio host Richard Fowler to discuss the revelations in The New York Times that Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 personal tax returns and could have used that loss to avoid paying federal income tax for 18 years, an allegation Trump has not denied.
"Let's just skip over the discussion about whether this was legal," Kelly said, "because it's perfectly legal what Trump did, and I don't know anybody who wants to pay more in taxes than they owe, I mean just because they feel it would be the morally right thing to do — show me that person, love to meet him." Instead, she asked Epshteyn about Clinton's line of attack: "a) what kind of a brilliant businessman loses $900+ million in a year, and b) what about all the small contractors and stockholders who got completely screwed the year he lost all that money, and he took advantage of it for years thereafter by not paying any taxes but they were left, they were hung out to dry?"
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