Mrs Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, earned adjusted gross income of US$10.6 million in 2015 and paid US$3.6 million in federal income taxes, according to a tax return her campaign released last month – after previously releasing eight years of returns in 2015.
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“You’ll have to ask him”, Conway said, before attempting to change the subject.
“I believe it. He believes it”. Uh, he was born in Hawaii. “The point is, what kind of president has he been?” “Right now, I have real doubts”.
As the MSNBC host pointed out, though, Trump himself has never said that he believes, unequivocally, that Obama was born in the United States.
“I confirm that”, Giuliani said.
“Ronald Reagan spoke the truth, to the American people just like Donald Trumps has”, said Pence, “Their honesty and toughness and a belief in the time honored principals that have always made America great and strong”, said Pence. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961, despite allegations from birthers – including Trump – who charged that he was likely born in his father’s native Kenya, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Trump has long pushed the birther conspiracy - a thoroughly debunked rumor that Obama was born overseas and thus ineligible for the American presidency. A certificate of live birth is not even signed by anybody.
It wasn’t enough for Trump, who pressed for Obama to release more proof.
But pressed by Bash on the difference between the two nation’s governments – namely that in the US democracy presidents share power with Congress – Pence acknowledged that Trump was not advocating for a dictatorship.
“I believe it. He believes it. But most of America believes that that did not go well for us”. He added that Trump was describing a “sense that he got recently that in fact our President had not taken all of the counsel of our military advisers in confronting and defeating ISIS”. The billionaire businessman has said he’s under an audit by the Internal Revenue Service and won’t release his returns until that audit is concluded – which may not happen before the November 8 election. Giuliani spoke for Trump, saying he now accepts the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency. Clinton said, referring to Trump’s flattering comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin and disparagement of American generals during a presidential forum Wednesday evening. Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and her former opponent Sen. And your candidate has on numerous occasions. “I know you talk about that on the campaign trail as well”.
Pence has defended Trump’s decision, calling questions about it “a distraction by many in the media who simply don’t want to focus on this widening scandal around the Clinton Foundation”. “Can you say that now?”
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“Her campaign raised it originally”, Giuliani insisted.
