Hillary Clinton Mocks Donald Trump Over Not Releasing Tax Returns
Questioning why he can release a tax plan favoring billionaires, but not his personal taxes.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday mocked Donald J. Trump as evasive and secretive after he suggested that he would not release his tax returns before the November election, which would be a break with 40 years of political precedent.
But Mr. Trump quickly hit back, saying that he still intended to release his tax returns as soon as a federal audit was completed — and that Mrs. Clinton was hitting him out of desperation.
“Donald Trump’s Tax Plan is a plan written by a billionaire for billionaires.” Mrs. Clinton, at a rally here to open her campaign for the New Jersey primary on June 7, had just begun attacking Mr. Trump’s proposed tax cuts for wealthy Americans when a man in the audience called out, “What about his tax returns?”
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