Hillary Clinton is seizing opportunities presented by a volatile presidential race to expand her base of support heading into the fall, seeking to position the Democratic Party for a sweeping victory in November.
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Trump has claimed that he can not release tax returns because he is being audited. Democrats repeatedly point to this as evidence of transparency on the part of the power couple. “What is he trying to hide?” queried Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary for America communications director.
On Thursday, Trump’s special counsel, Michael Cohen, told CNN he would not allow Trump to release them until the audits are complete. Manafort said that only local media covered Trump’s rallies in swing states the past week and that the media didn’t report on newly released emails that provided additional evidence that Clinton Foundation donors got access at the State Department. “We want to see the records the night of Benghazi that explain why Secretary Clinton didn’t send in reinforcements as soon as the attack had begun”, he said. “But I promise you, when my forms are filed and when my tax returns are released, it’s going to be a quick read”.
The Trump campaign dismissed Clinton’s action, saying in a statement: “This document release is nothing more than an attempt at distraction and misdirection” from controversy about her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
Jeremy Bird, who ran field operations for Obama’s 2012 campaign and is now consulting for Clinton’s operation, said Trump has no one to blame but himself. He has stripped a long list of news organizations – including the New York Times, Buzzfeed, Politico and the Washington Post – of their credentials, and vowed that as president he would make it easier to sue news outlets.
The Clintons’ main sources of income were Bill Clinton’s paid speeches, to the tune of 5.2 million United States dollars, and a payment to Hillary Clinton from the publisher of her last book, Simon & Schuster, for 3 million USA dollars.
Hillary Clinton, 68, gave dozens of paid speeches in 2013, 2014 and 2015 but gave up on that before launching her White House run in April 2015.
The last time NY voted for a Republican candidate was in 1984 when former President Ronald Reagan carried 49 states. She put out her most recent eight years of tax filings last summer and several years during her first presidential bid. “That’s number one. Number two, we’re only six points down”, Spicer said, referring to the gap that Clinton has opened up against Trump in some national polls.
“We have to assume that this is going to be hard”. The problem with the argument from anti-Trump Republicans, he said, is that the GOP needs Trump headlining fundraisers to raise money for candidates at all levels.
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In 2015, the Clintons made $1 million in charitable contributions, mostly to the Clinton Foundation; former President Bill Clinton brought in almost $5.3 million in speaking fees; and the former secretary of state reported income of $3 million from publisher Simon & Schuster for her book on her tenure at the State Department.
