Trumping Death and Taxes

President Trump, in his WSJ interview:

When George Steinbrenner died, like with the estate taxes, the estate paid nothing. And if he would have died like two weeks later, they would have paid 50 percent of the Yankees. That would have been the end of the team, right?

Nope. Steinbrenner died on July 13, 2010. Had he died on July 27 (or even December 27) his estate would have escaped federal estate tax.

And even if Steinbrenner had died in 2011, when the estate tax reappeared, most likely the Yankees would still be around to trail the Red Sox.

Fact-checkers tend to label Trump talk fibbing. He prefers hyperbole.