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Hillary Clinton’s Tax Return Shows 10% Giving Rate in 2015

The bulk of their income – more than $6 million (about €5.4 million) – came from speaking fees for appearances largely made before Ms Clinton launched her campaign last April. Donald Trump has tapped into potent anti-free-trade sentiment on the campaign trail.

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In the days leading up to her MI speech, Clinton touted her economic plan during stops in Florida and Iowa. “Donald Trump hasn’t shown that”. She said she wants to make trade deals work for the USA, not against it.

However, his remarks were quickly eclipsed by the latest in a series of controversial statements which Mr Trump has spent much of the past two weeks trying to clarify.

A source close to Mrs Clinton said she would soon release the return, supplementing the decades of returns she and her husband have already made public.

“He refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done and release his tax returns”, Hillary Clinton said during a speech in MI.

Trump then suggested Clinton “can’t beat what’s happening here”, and reiterated that the only way he would lose Pennsylvania is “in my opinion, and I mean this 100%, if in certain sections of the state they cheat”.

“He’s offered no credible plans to address what working families are up against today”, Clinton said in Warren, Michigan, shortly after touring Futuramic, a hangar-like, high-tech factory that makes parts for the aerospace industry.

Trump, Clinton’s Republican opponent, has steadfastly refused to release any of his personal tax information, citing legal advice from Trump Organization counsel not to publicly disclose his tax returns before the completion of an audit.

Clinton called that the “Trump loophole” and said his plans would “only benefit millionaires like himself”.

“It will present a night-and-day contrast to the job-killing, tax-raising, poverty-inducing Obama-Clinton agenda”, Trump said Monday.

The couple earned more than $10 million in 2015, the documents say.

Both candidates chose tightly contested MI – specifically, the Detroit area – to make their updated economic pitches.

“But I want great trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers”, Trump said.

During a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump repeated his claim that Clinton intends to abolish the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects Americans’ right to keep guns, before appearing to make a joke about using violence to stop Clinton from picking liberal Supreme Court justices.

Democrats said such comments were further evidence that Mr Trump was undisciplined and unprepared for the presidency.

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Those comments immediately sparked a firestorm of criticism of Trump both on Twitter and in the mainline communications media, and particularly among Democratic sectors, that the magnate had, in effect, issued a veiled call for violence against the former first lady.

Hillary Clinton speaks to a crowd in Warren Mich