CLINTON: Well, I think youāve seen another example of bait-and- switch here. For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it. We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when youāre under audit.
So youāve got to ask yourself, why wonāt he release his tax returns? And I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe heās not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe heās not as charitable as he claims to be.
CLINTON: Third, we donāt know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or
maybe he doesnāt want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that heās paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybodyās ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didnāt pay any federal income tax.
TRUMP: That makes me smart.
CLINTON: So if heās paid zero, that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health. And I think probably heās not all that enthusiastic about having the rest of our country see what the real reasons are, because it must be something really important, even terrible, that heās trying to hide.
And the financial disclosure statements, they donāt give you the tax rate. They donāt give you all the details that tax returns would. And it just seems to me that this is something that the American people deserve to see. And I have no reason to believe that heās ever going to release his tax returns, because thereās something heās hiding.
And weāll guess. Weāll keep guessing at what it might be that heās hiding. But I think the question is, were he ever to get near the White House, what would be those conflicts? Who does he owe money to? Well, he owes you the answers to that, and he should provide them.
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