Jimmy Kimmel turns Donald Trump's tax return leak defense into brutal ad

Donald Trump has tried to spin the New York Times article about his $916 million declared loss on his 1995 tax returns — and how it would allow him to avoid paying income tax for 18 years — as a "badge of honor," Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday's Kimmel Live. He pointed to the tweet where Trump bragged he knows "the tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them," then judged it an "excellent point." Trump "knows the laws very well, from trying to get around them," Kimmel said, laughing. "They should run with that and make a campaign ad out of it." And since Team Trump probably won't take up his advice, Kimmel made one himself, featuring O.J. Simpson and Bernie Madoff, among others, ending with the catchy slogan: "I broke it. So I can fix it." Watch below. Peter Weber

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