In a statement, Clinton emphasized that she came into her wealth later in her life – an effort to draw a distinction with Bush, the scion of a rich political family.
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The House Committee investigating the Benghazi attack is suspicious because some of Clinton’s emails are missing from the public record. In a letter, she declares Clinton “a healthy-appearing female”, saying that Clinton exercises regularly, eats plenty of vegetables and fruits, doesn’t smoke, and “drinks alcohol only occasionally”.
“She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as President of the United States“, Bardack’s letter concludes. She stated they paid $43,885,310 in federal taxes and made $14,959,450 in charitable contributions.
During the course of her concussion treatment, Clinton was also found to have a blood clot and was given medication to dissolve it. She remains on the medicine as a precaution, Bardack wrote.
She additionally noted Clinton’s previous medical conditions, including a concussion in 2012, an elbow fracture in 2009 and deep vein thrombosis in both 2009 and 1998. She has two brothers, and one had premature heart disease.
The couple had earlier released tax returns dating back to 1977. Not all of the tax returns are now online, but the official said the tax forms were made available during the Clinton’s first run at elected office.
“The campaign is going to lean into the fact that we are now going to be more transparent than Jeb” said a campaign official who joked that Friday is the day the Clinton campaign gets as much as they can out there.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, earned more than $139 million between 2007 and 2014, according to eight years of federal income tax returns released by her campaign on Friday.
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The Clinton campaign posted the tax returns to their website on Friday afternoon, along with an itemized list of all the paid speeches Clinton and her husband delivered in 2013.
