Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton released her tax returns on Friday, showing that she and her husband Bill made $10.6 million in 2015, after taxes.
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In 2015, the Clintons made $1 million in charitable contributions, mostly to the Clinton Foundation; former President Bill Clinton brought in almost $5.3 million in speaking fees; and the former secretary of state reported income of $3 million from publisher Simon & Schuster for her book on her tenure at the State Department.
Kaine and Holton over the past 10 years have had effective federal income tax rates ranging from 13.4 percent to 24 percent.
At a Clinton rally last week in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate is based there, challenged Trump to meet and exchange tax returns. Democrats repeatedly point to this as evidence of transparency on the part of the power couple.
Trump, who has released a self-reported financial disclosure form, said he will not make his tax returns public until the Internal Revenue Service completes audits of them.
Clinton’s campaign also released a list of 41 speeches that she delivered in 2013, with speaking fees ranging from 225,000 dollars to 400,000 dollars.
“It’s white-bread stuff. Hillary has been running for president for decades and her tax returns show it”, said Joseph Thorndike, director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts and author of the “Politics of Federal Taxation” column for Tax Notes magazine. They could abandon a state such as Virginia, for example, and focus more on a state such as IN, where Democrat Evan Bayh is trying to make a Senate comeback.
That’s according to several Republican officials in Washington and states that would be affected, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
In 2012, then-Republican presidential Mitt Romney reluctantly released his returns.
Clinton followed Trump to MI this past week, making a stop in the Detroit area that was more tactically precise than the billionaire’s speech to the city’s well-heeled business leaders.
Trump, a real estate developer with a fortune estimated to be in billions, has refused to release his.
His sinking poll numbers are worrying some Republicans, but party boss Reince Priebus weighed in Friday to show his support. “We want to see the pay-for-play e-mails that Clinton’s Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, refuses to turn over”, Mr. Miller said.
Mike Dedrel, a UPS driver and Trump supporter who’s also from St. Cloud, said he hoped in the coming months that Trump wouldn’t speak off the cuff as often and stick to pre-planned answers.
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Trump said he had been sarcastic when he called President Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS”, but said without Obama and former secretary of state Clinton “you probably wouldn’t even have ISIS”. Not all of them. “They have about 25 percent that are pretty good, actually”, he added.
