“In stark contrast, Donald Trump is hiding behind fake excuses and backtracking on his previous promises to release his tax returns”.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Monday that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, does not have the “mental and physical stamina” required to battle the Islamic State and, by extension, radical Islamic terror.
According to a statement posted to Clinton’s website Friday, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made a collective $10.6 million in adjusted gross income in 2015. Democrats repeatedly point to this as evidence of transparency on the part of the power couple. Their 2015 return was released today by the Clinton campaign, nearly five months after they signed it for filing.
Trump has previously said that he will not release them because he is now being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. “What is he trying to hide?”
The campaign released 10 years of returns for vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine and his wife Anne Holton.
She said: “My mother, like many other Americans and people around the world, would be mortified we have a Republican nominee of such bad taste and character as Donald Trump”.
“Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, he added, leading some critics to believe Trump was referring to gun violence against his rival.
“Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”. The government agency, however, has said that an audit does not restrict Trump from releasing the returns.
A Reuters/IPSOS poll Wednesday found that 19 percent of Republican voters want Trump to drop out of the race, while 70 percent think he should stay and 10 percent say they don’t know.
That document gave only an estimate of Trump’s assets, liabilities and income. “His casual cruelty to a Gold Star family, his casual suggestion that more countries should have nuclear weapons, and now his casual inciting of violence – every single one of these incidents shows us that Donald Trump simply does not have the temperament to be president and commander in chief of the United States”. Forbes magazine estimates Trump is worth less than half that – $4.5 billion.
But the 70-year-old real estate billionaire dismissed the CNN report.
The Clintons’ main sources of income were Bill Clinton’s paid speeches, to the tune of $5.2 million, and a payment to Hillary Clinton from the publisher of her last book, Simon & Schuster, for $3 million.
Clinton aides requested anonymity to preview her speech before it is delivered.
The Clintons also donated $1 million to the non-profit foundation that bears their name.
Most released their returns for several years, such as Bob Dole in 1996.
In 2012, Mitt Romney released two years’ worth of tax returns.
Protesters at Trump afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, held up signs reading “Tax Forms” before being escorted out by security.
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Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, has yet to say if he will release his taxes, which he has not done as governor of Indiana.
