The Clinton campaign pounced all over Donald Trump after the presumptive Republican nominee told the American people that the amount that he doesn’t pay in taxes is none of their business.
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In an interview with the Associated Press this week, Trump argued that voters would learn “nothing” from his tax returns, and said he would not release them before the November election even if the IRS completes its audit.
When asked if voters have a right to see his tax returns at all, Trump repeated his insistence that they don’t. Originally, Trump said he would release his taxes in due time, but couldn’t at the moment because he was under an audit from the IRS.
Donald Trump says he doesn’t keep money in Swiss banks or offshore accounts and his tax rate is no one’s business.
“There have been many president who have not shown their tax returns”, Trump stated, only to have Stephanopoulos reply, “Every single nominee since 1976 has released his tax returns”.
“You’ll see it when I release but I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible”, the 69-year-old tycoon-turned- politician said.
Four years later, Donald Trump’s line seems eerily similar: “I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible”.
Noting that presidential candidates are expected to provide tax returns, Clinton told supporters this week: “So you’ve got to ask yourself, why doesn’t he want to release them?…”
Priebus also said he didn’t know what to make of a report in The Washington Post that Trump posed as his own spokesman more than two decades ago when speaking to a reporter about his personal relationships. He said he would release them after the audit is completed. I know she’s a good friend of yours and I know that you worked for her and you didn’t reveal it but you know she did not turn over her emails.
Trump has asked Cramer to write a white paper on energy policy, Cramer and sources familiar with the matter said.
“My husband and I have released 33 years of tax returns, we’ve got eight years on our website right now”, she said on Thursday, as quoted by CNN. The email scandal is part of an ongoing Department of Justice probe as the Federal Bureau of Investigation looks into the content of the deleted emails and whether Clinton’s use of a homebrew server exposed state secrets to hackers.
Stephanopoulos has also given $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. She said I happen to agree with you.
After saying he would release them, he now claims he can not because they were being audited.
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Trump said his company was “clean”. “When is she going to give that?”
