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After letting Donald Trump hog the spotlight for much of the summer, Hillary Clinton has come out swinging in the post-Labor Day stretch of the campaign. She followed up on her Sunday gaggle with reporters with another Tuesday afternoon in which she drew new battle lines going forward on Donald Trump's failure to release his tax returns.
Clinton opened the gaggle with reporters aboard her plane by noting the trail of irregularities in Trump's finances that could be illuminated by the release of his tax returns, including his six bankruptcies, some 4,000 lawsuits that he's been a party to, his involvement with the fraudulent Trump University, and some $650 million in payments to foreign entities.
In short, Clinton summed it up as, "The scams, the frauds, the questionable relationships," before going on to state:
So clearly his tax returns tell a story that the American people deserve and need to know. And his continuing claim that he can't release his tax returns because he's under audit has been disproved repeatedly. And so the question really is, will he abide by the precedent that everyone else, Republican and Democrat alike have fulfilled in providing that critical information to the American people? I think the burden is on him and indeed for the rest of us, in the campaign, on our side, the press, the public, to demand what a big majority of the American public says they want, which is for him to release his tax returns. So I'm going to continue to raise this because I think it is a fundamental issue about him in this campaign that we're going to talk about in one way or another for the next 62 days because he clearly has something to hide. We don't know exactly what it is, but we're getting better guesses about what it probably is. And if he's going to pursue this campaign, he owes it to the American people to come clean and release those tax returns.
Watch it below.