Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax returns Friday, seeking to put additional pressure on Donald Trump to do the same.
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Hillary Clinton on Friday did something every major party’s presidential nominee has done since 1976, with the sole exception of the man she is now running against: She released her tax returns.
“Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine continue to set the standard for financial transparency”, Clinton campaign communication director Jennifer Palmieri said Friday.
More than 70 influential Republicans have signed a letter urging the party to stop spending money on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and direct it instead to November’s congressional races, according to reports. Adjusted gross income for 2015 was $10.6 million, compared to $27.9 million for the previous year. “Go home to mom”, Trump said to the protesters.
The Clintons’ 2015 return showed that, unlike most Americans, just $100 of their income came from wages.
By any measure, Hillary Clinton and her husband have satisfied the Buffett Rule that she’d like to impose if elected.
Trump had told The Associated Press in May that he would not release his returns before the November 8 elections.
The 2015 return also showed the Clintons forked over $3.2 million in federal income taxes, which is an effective tax rate of about 34 percent.
Clinton is describing a typical day on the campaign trail in the launch of her campaign’s podcast, “With Her”.
Incredulous that the media did not see sarcasm in his repeated statements about President Barack Obama and Clinton being the “founders” of the Islamic State group, Trump earned cheers when he said that journalists “are the lowest form of life”.
Tech issues went largely ignored when USA presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton laid out their economics plans in speeches this week.
The Clintons pulled in $10.6 million in 2015, much less than the almost $28 million they made the year before.
She has granted few recent interviews to national outlets and rarely holds press conferences, a strategy her critics say is calculated to avoid questions about her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state, and the relationship between her family’s global charity, the Clinton Foundation, and the State Department.
In Florida, a crucial battleground state, Republican lobbyist Gus Corbella says the contrast between the local coverage of Clinton’s campaign stops there and Trump’s events has been stark.
Bill Clinton earned $1.7 million through his consulting business. The Clintons, who now live in Chappaqua, New York, paid an average effective federal tax rate of about 32 percent from 2007 to 2014 and an effective combined tax rate of approximately 40.5 percent.
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Her campaign tweeted Friday afternoon that Trump “might be” paying $0 in taxes. Trump has said he would “knock the hell out of ISIS”, without offering details, and would persuade Gulf states to bankroll safe zones for Syrian refugees so they would not have to be brought to the United States. The top-line numbers: Hillary and Bill Clinton earned a combined $10.6 million a year ago, roughly $6 million of which came from speaking fees paid by corporations and other organizations.
