Donald Trump’s campaign issued a statement Friday bashing Hillary Clinton for releasing her and her running mate Tim Kaine’s tax returns, which was itself a move to pressure Trump into releasing his forms.
Trump communications advisor Jason Miller said Clinton only released her tax returns as a “distraction and misdirection” from her use of a private email server. Releasing tax returns has been the norm for presidential nominees dating back to the 1970s.
Nevertheless, Miller said Clinton was merely turning over “the only records nobody wants to see from her.” He went on to call on Clinton to release the “33,000 emails she deleted to obstruct an FBI investigation,” the “Clinton Foundation records showing how the Clintons sold our uranium to Russia, ripped off Haiti and cut deals with oppressive regimes around the world,” and the “pay-for-play emails that Clinton’s Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, refuses to turn over.”
“We want to see the transcripts of the secret Wall Street speeches Clinton was paid $10,000 dollars-a-minute to give,” Miller continued. “We want to see the records the night of Benghazi that explain why Secretary Clinton didn’t send in reinforcements as soon as the attack had begun.”
Several congressional investigations into the Benghazi attack failed to find evidence of any wrongdoing on Clinton’s part. In its probe of Clinton’s email server, the FBI found no evidence to suggest Clinton or her staff deleted emails in an effort to conceal them.
Miller’s statement went on to call Clinton the “center of an international corruption scandal that reveals her use of government authority and influence for personal gain.”
“The records we need to see are those being hidden, deleted, obstructed and stashed away by Hillary Clinton to keep authorities from untangling this corrupt scheme that reaches into the world’s shady corridors of power,” he said. “Everything she doesn’t want us to see has been digitally shredded or put under lock and key.”
