While it’s normal for presidential candidates to release their tax returns, the Clintons are also now trying to call attention to Trump’s refusal, thus far, to do so himself. He has said that his returns are now being audited and he will release his returns after it is completed.
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Donald Trump, despite facing a great deal of criticism over the issue, still hasn’t released his tax returns, something the Clinton campaign continues to try and draw negative attention to.
Over the course of their careers the Clintons have published all of their tax returns since 1977.
The Trump campaign was quick to respond by challenging Ms. Clinton on the 33,000 e-mails of hers as the Secretary of State that has been deleted.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at Futuramic Tool & Engineering in Warren, Michigan August 11.
They also said Clinton is more qualified to be president and more likely to be effective in dealing with Congress.
Clinton has pounced on the issue, releasing an online video on Friday highlighting high-profile Republicans urging Trump to release his taxes.
“He refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done and release his tax returns”, she told the crowd.
Trump doubled-down on the comments before saying Friday he was being sarcastic. Republican leaders hope he will stay on message, criticizing the policies of President Barack Obama and Clinton in a substantive way, and not wander into the mine field of insults and grudges that add to the impression among numerous voters that he is an unpredictable hothead.
“Hillary Clinton has turned over the only records nobody wants to see from her – the American public wants to see the 33,000 emails she deleted to obstruct an FBI investigation”, Jason Miller, senior communication advisor of the Trump Campaign, said. Buffet said that he too was under IRS audit and Trump is “afraid” not of the tax-collection agency but of voters.
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In 2012, Mitt Romney released two years’ worth of tax returns. Their main investment was a low-priced index mutual fund, and the Clintons reported dividend and interest income of $109,000.
