Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis says Donald TrumpDonald TrumpGOP super-PAC ties vulnerable House Dems to Hillary Trump’s minimum wage two-step confuses biz groups, advisers Anti-Clinton super-PAC looks to inflame intraparty tension with Sanders backers MORE is “getting away with murder” by not releasing his tax returns. “Well, go ahead, show me the money”. Each speaker mentioned Trump’s taxes, and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine made fun of Trump by impersonating him, saying, “There’s nothing suspicious in my tax returns, believe me”. Asked at a press conference in Doral, Florida, on Wednesday when he would release his returns, he said: “I don’t know”.
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“Think of what’s gone on just this week and connect the dotted lines”, said top Clinton donor J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire venture capitalist in Chicago. “We have the right to make sure he’s not in debt to other countries”.
I mean, take, for example, the income tax returns.
“He is obfuscating in order to avoid being discovered as a liar”, Pritzker said. Footage includes Trump telling a reporter who’d asked about his tax rate, “It’s none of your business”.
Even Mitt Romney has called for the Republican nominee to release his tax returns.
Then-Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis lost his race to George H.W. Bush, the sitting vice president who, like 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with President Barack Obama, presented himself to voters as an extension of the current commander-in-chief’s legacy – in his case Republican Ronald Reagan. In 2014, they donated nearly 11 percent of their income to charity.
Romney’s returns were “a tiny peanut compared to mine”, Trump said on “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired last Sunday. “He has too much to hide”, Romney said.
Trump has said that if the audit is done by the election, he will release them.
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“He’s running for the presidency of the United States, and all he has to do is release them, and I think it’s pretty obvious that there’s something in there he doesn’t want released”, he said.
