Hillary Clinton took on Donald Trump's tax issues Monday at a Toledo, Ohio, rally, asking, "What kind of a genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?"
Clinton attacked Trump's handling of his taxes throughout the speech, noting that even as he’s failed to pay taxes, he’s been denigrating all the governmental services that depend on taxpayer dollars. Here are a few transcribed snippets:
You may have heard that he has long refused to release his tax returns the way every other nominee for president have done for decades. [...]
Doesn't look like he paid a dime of federal income tax for almost two decades. [...]
He has been dissing America in this whole campaign. Right? He talks us down. He makes disparaging comments about our country, he calls our military a disaster. Well, it is not, but it might have been if everybody had else failed to pay taxes to support our great men and women in uniform.
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Then you all know that in the debate he said it was "smart" to avoid paying taxes. Yesterday, his campaign was bragging: It makes him a genius. Here is my question, what kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year? This is Trump to a T. He's taking corporate excess and made a business model out of it. He abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country’s. It’s Trump first and everyone else last. There are a lot of principled law-abiding business leaders out there who are horrified by all of this. Not a single CEO of a Fortune 100 Company supports Trump’s campaign.