“Pence’s documents show his adjusted gross income peaked in 2009 at around $187,000 and was $113,000 a year ago”, The Hill reports.
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Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence released 10 years of tax returns on Friday evening, a disclosure that Donald Trump, his partner on the Republican ticket, has so far declined to make.
Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that Donald Trump does believe President Barack Obama was born in the United States, seeking to end criticism of the Republican presidential nominee for his ongoing refusal to put the issue to rest. Pence released 10 years of his tax returns revealing a modest income. Pence donated $8,923 to charity, nearly equal to the $8,956 he paid in federal income tax.
“I’ve learned since being on the inside that this audit is a serious matter and that he has said that when the audit is complete, he will release his tax returns”, she told CNN in August.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pencereleased a decade of tax returns Friday, showing he made $113,206 a year ago.
With more traditional politicians, releasing tax returns has become a way of fact-checking whether a candidate’s personal financial life matches their campaign rhetoric.
Asked why Trump himself has not yet announced his belief that Obama was born in the United States, Conway said “you have to ask him”. However, apparently now something, the passage of time or perhaps his running for political office for the first time, has satisfied Trump.
Trump’s rival for the presidency, Democratic nominee and former first lady Hillary Clinton, has described Trump as “dead wrong” for saying that his tax returns were not the concern of everyday Americans.
Clinton has also raised questions about what Trump may be hiding by refusing to release his taxes and she has wondered whether Trump is worth the $10 billion he says he is. “But it’s Donald Trump – who just this week attacked America’s generals and showered praise on Russia’s authoritarian leader – running to be our next president”.
Giuliani said the conversation was “ridiculous” and that they should instead be discussing Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
But the differences between Trump and Pence don’t stop at the number of zeros in their net worth: While Trump has balked at some traditional campaign norms and excelled at controversial statements, Pence seems to take the more practiced route to his public statements and followed in the footsteps of prior candidates.
Karen Pence, a self-employed artist, reported earning $495 and spending more than that on expenses.
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“Other than a whole bunch of zeros, we really have a lot in common”, Pence said at an event in Georgia.
