Clinton releases 2015 tax returns, pushing Trump for his
The filing shows that the Clintons earned $10.6 million and paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent past year.
Clinton’s campaign has released tax returns going back to 2007.
The return was released as part of a document dump that included the last 10 years of returns from her running mate Tim Kaine, a detailed list of income from speeches Clinton made in 2013 and a physician’s note saying that Clinton had an excellent bill of health.
Trump has so far declined to release his, arguing that his tax returns for the past several years are being audited.
Hillary Clinton says she brings a lot of stamina to her campaign – rebutting Donald Trump’s suggestion that she’s not up to the rigors of the presidency. Although the claim is unsubstantiated, Clinton is ramping up the pressure on her Republican rival to release, at the very least, prior years of his tax filings that aren’t now being audited.
“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”, said Trump spokesman Jason Miller.
What’s in Donald Trump’s tax returns?
“If team United States of America was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room, afraid to come out to compete”, Clinton told supporters at a Thursday rally in Detroit.
Trump has said he is worth more than $10 billion, but no one has been able to confirm this independently.
Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, paid an effective federal tax rate of 20.3% and a state/local rate of 5.4% in 2015.
The Clintons took in $10.6 million in income in 2015, a majority of which came from paid speeches by Bill Clinton, while $3 million came from book royalties. Her primary opponent, Sen.
One million dollars of the charitable contributions went directly to the Clinton Family Foundation – separate from the Clinton Foundation – which is by the couple.
Trump says he won’t release them until Internal Revenue Service completes audits of his returns. Yet he’s also refused to release prior returns that would provide information about his income, foreign holdings as well as charitable giving.
Information for this article was contributed by Catherine Lucey, Lisa Lerer, Steve Peoples, Jill Colvin and Josh Lederman of The Associated Press; by John Wagner, Jim Tankersley, Tom Hamburger and Sean Sullivan of The Washington Post; and by Mike Dorning of Bloomberg News.
Donald Trump plans to return to Wisconsin next week and once again the state’s top Republican leaders won’t be there.
His sinking poll numbers are worrying some Republicans, but party boss Reince Priebus weighed in Friday to show his support.
The lack of a disclosure of his taxes has opened Trump to attacks from his opponents, first during the Republican primary and now in the months leading to the November 8 general election.
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Earlier this week he caused a major stir with comments about the Second Amendment that were perceived as advocating violence against Clinton, then faced questions yet again after declaring Wednesday that President Barack Obama was the “founder” of the Islamic State group – a patently false claim.
“They are the lowest form of humanity”.