And the couple also faced 2 of the tax bills imposed on high-income earners, the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) and the additional Medicare tax.
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Higgins is CEO of a company called RSE Ventures, but he was press secretary when Rudy Giuliani was mayor of NY and was involved with fundraising for the McCain and Romney campaigns. In the past, Wall Street has frequently paid Hillary Clinton to speak. And in any other election year that would be an oxymoron. But this is anything but a normal election year.
At the evangelical summit in Orlando, Trump beseeched religious leaders to persuade their followers to show up to vote for him, gently chiding evangelicals for failing to vote in large enough numbers for GOP nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. “‘Yeah, but. Yeah, but'”. The idea, apparently, was simple: when the Trump campaign goes down in flames, the RNC wants to be sure that they are not blamed for the fall, rather, that it is Donald Trump that is blamed for the defeat.
The same day, Trump acknowledged that his lack of political correctness could cost him the election if Americans reject his blunt approach. And then, slowly, he came around to a realization. He has claimed that this is being misinterpreted by a hostile press – his meaning, his campaign insists, is that the “Second Amendment people” can vote to ensure Clinton is not elected.
“You have to have a hierarchy of principles at a time like this”, Higgins said. “But I’ve never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over, or before the score is even tallied”.
“And don’t believe the garbage you read”.
Clinton said she wants to bring Americans together to tackle the big challenges facing the country.
Trump insisted in an interview with Fox News that his remarks were a call for political, not physical, action.
An interviewer suggested to Trump that he couldn’t really mean that the president and former secretary of state were the founders of ISIS and invited him to reel it in a bit.
Clinton herself publicly hinted at the outreach in a speech on the night of the Pennsylvania primary. Instead, “this is about what kind of country we’re going to be, about whether you and everyone else who lives here can feel at home in America”.
In recent weeks, Clinton spoke personally with Whitman, the 2010 Republican candidate for governor in California.
“Trump has to start making some moves”, said Stephan Thompson, a senior adviser to Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus must make the choice as to whether or not the RNC will cut funding to Donald Trump’s campaign.
“He is not demonstrating to some Republicans, like, basic acceptability”, said Ham.
At the televised Republican National Convention in Cleveland, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie led the crowd into an nearly rapturous chorus of “Lock her up!” Last month, Trump toyed with not endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., before the state’s August 9 primary, when Ryan walloped a little-known challenger. It is not the same organization as the better-known Clinton Foundation. They turned away when he said Fox News’ Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her, wherever”.
“I’m in a quandary as to who I am going to vote for”, Rohrscheib said.
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Trump has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for a prolonged feud with the Muslim family of a fallen U.S. Army captain and his assertion last week that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had co-founded the Islamic State militant group. So, there’s something for Clinton’s camp to work with. In addition to their 2015 return, the Clintons have previously made public every tax return of theirs dating back to 1977. The Clintons that same year paid 30%.
