Clinton’s decision not to use a State Department email account has become a political problem for her, as Republicans seize on the disclosures to paint her as untrustworthy and willing to break rules for personal gain.
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The State Department must also require the trio “describe, under penalty of perjury, the extent to which Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills used Mrs. Clinton’s email server to conduct official government business”. Only a small fraction of the messages have been released to date. The bulk of the Clintons’ income came from speeches delivered to corporate and interest groups by Bill Clinton and later by Hillary Clinton after she resigned as secretary of state in early 2013.
Hillary and Bill Clinton paid $43.9m (€39.9m) in federal taxes between 2007 and 2014 on adjusted gross income totalling $139,097,232 (€126,647,576), according to tax returns released by the former secretary of state’s presidential campaign yesterday.
The returns show the couple made $14,959,450 in charitable contributions, or roughly 11 percent for the past two years.
In a statement accompanying her tax records, Ms Clinton said she and her husband paid an effective federal tax rate of 35.7 percent last year and that the rate went up to 45.8 percent when state and local taxes were figured in. By 2014 she had netted more than $10 million. The list showed she generally charged $225,000 per speech, though at times her fee was higher, including once when she collected $400,000 for a speech to the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Marco Rubio’s plan would cut taxes for households making more than $3 million a year by nearly $240,000 – more than four times the earnings of a typical family.
“She could have gotten whatever IT support was needed to make it convenient for her, and secure as well”, he said.
In a statement released ahead of the returns, Clinton paired the latest details on the couple’s substantial income with a call for tax reform and simplification, emphasizing the need for “those at the top to pay their fair share”.
But as a precaution, Clinton remains on daily blood thinners, something her husband previously revealed. The scare fueled nagging questions about the wisdom of other prominent Democrats stepping aside for a presidential candidate whose health could falter during the campaign.
Republican strategist Karl Rove later cast the incident as a “serious health episode” that would be an issue if Clinton ran for president, fueling a theory the concussion posed a graver threat to her abilities than Clinton and her team let on.
It also said a lot more.
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“Clinton is a healthy female with hypothyroidism and seasonal allergies”, Bardack concluded. In 2009, Clinton emailed aides asking if there was something that could be done for a 10-year-old Yemeni girl who she had once met and later appeared in a CNN story talking about her hard life. And it pointed to some of the candidate’s personal habits: no smoking, no drugs, some yoga, some weightlifting, some swimming and lots of eating fruits and vegetables.
