The Clinton campaign has said Trump is trying to hide something by not releasing his returns. Clinton has been conspicuously silent about the corporate tax rate, which many experts say should be lowered from the current 35%, highest in the world, to make the U.S.more competitive.
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Clinton’s campaign released a statement Tuesday disavowing Mateen’s support. The Republican nominee has refused to make his 2015 tax data public.
Her political fortunes flourishing, Hillary Clinton attempted to undercut Donald Trump’s claim to working-class voters Thursday, portraying her Republican rival as untrustworthy on economic issues and pushing policies that would benefit only the super-wealthy – himself included.
The move by the Democrats is clearly meant to pressure Donald Trump to release his own tax returns; he has so far refused to do so, claiming he needs an audit to be completed first.
This post will be updated. “It’s illegal.” Trump also called Obama “the founder of ISIS” for not leaving US forces in Iraq and said that made Clinton “the co-founder”.
Hillary Clinton was surrounded by Secret Service agents Wednesday afternoon after a protester broke past barricades separating the Democratic nominee from supporters at a campaign stop in Des Moines.
Bill Clinton’s consulting work for GEMS Education, a global network of for-profit schools based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, earned him more than $5.6 million in fees between 2010 and 2015, according to the Clinton tax returns. Clinton in recent weeks has made a point of stopping at small businesses in swing states where she’s recounted his history of manufacturing products overseas, hiring foreign workers over US citizens and refusing to pay some contractors.
“Given that my candidate for President is releasing her tax returns, I plan to release mine next week”.
“The Republican Party in South Carolina is as red as it’s ever going be”, said Ed McMullen, who is Trump’s South Carolina Chairman. Unlike Trump, however, she’s not threatening a 45% tariff on Chinese imports, which experts say would be met with retaliation from China that hammers U.S. exports and eliminates jobs domestically.
The Clintons overpaid the Treasury and got a refund of more than $1 million.
In 2012, Mitt Romney released two years’ worth of tax returns. For Trump, the subject may be notably more taxing.
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Trump – launching a broadside at Clinton over her husband’s signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, which Trump says cost American jobs – also took aim at one of his favorite targets: the media.
