The tax returns of US Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee Mike Pence have been released, although presidential candidate Donald Trump has still not shared any tax information himself.
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But in a contentious interview with MSNBC, the former NY mayor and close Trump ally said he could confirm that Trump now believes Obama was born in the U.S.
Trump was the most prominent early proponent of a theory that Obama, the nation’s first black president, was not born in the United States and therefore, under the US Constitution, ineligible to be commander in chief.
“Donald Trump believes now that (Obama) was born in the United States”, Giuliani told MSNBC.
“Rather than capturing people because Obama didn’t want to fill up Guantanamo, he used drones to kill them”, the former NY mayor said. His 2006 tax return shows that number took a substantial hit in 2004 when the Kiel Brothers Oil Company – where his father had worked for years and his brother was, at the time, serving as CEO – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Conway, irrelevantly, added that “the point is what kind of President has he been?”
Giuliani said Trump has had that view since “three, four, five years ago”.
“I don’t even talk about it anymore”, Trump said on Fox.
The “routine audit” has largely been the standard line from Trump’s campaign, though the IRS has said that audits do not prohibit people from making their tax returns public.
Then Giuliani incorrectly claimed that Hillary Clinton accused Mr. Obama during the 2008 presidential primary race that he was foreign-born.
Christina Reynolds, a deputy spokeswoman for Clinton’s campaign, added: “As prominent Republicans have speculated, Trump’s returns could reveal further ties to Russian Federation and its oligarchs, the truth about his personal wealth, or more lies about his charitable contributions”. I’m saying I don’t know. I think that tape’s going to be produced fairly soon. It is meant to simulate the sensation of drowning, and has been barred by President Obama as a proper method of interrogating suspected terrorists.
“The president believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country”, former White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement at the time. I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can.
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As Bash questioned how that word could describe a man with his name on so many buildings, Pence said Trump reveals his “humility” in private.
