The cartoon above is a bit of a stretch. It's doubtful Donald Trump even knows Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress "power to lay and collect taxes..." Two weeks after Warren Buffett challenged Trump to release his tax returns, Hillary Clinton has released hers, while Trump has just released more Trumpisms. The tax returns of Hillary and Bill Clinton showed they are in the country's top 1% with a 2015 adjusted gross income of $10.6 million. . -
Heath Disclosure:
Both Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have released there full and detailed medical records in cluding a September 2016 update.
Clink onthis hyperlink to see the latest Detailed Health Disclosures of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine
Donald Trump a letter for his Doctor that is the subject of many stand up comic routines Dr Oz saw something additional on a reality show where Trump and Ibanka were his guests but whatever he saw has not been released .
Mike Pence .... nothing
Tax Returns :
Hillary Clinton has released 37 continuous years of her tax returns ( filed jointly with Bill Clinton) .
The Clinton Foundation has released its audited financials for every year in its existence . The financials include a list of its major donors .
Tim Kaine has released 11 continuous years of his tax returns filled jointly with his wife Anne Bright Holton, a lawyer and until recently Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia ( The US State of Virginia)
Donald Trump and Mike Pence .... Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The Trump Foundation equally has not released any financials at all.
Email:
Hillary Clinton received over 69,000 emails to her private server during the time she was Secretary of State the vast number just cced and fyi. She deleted 29,000 emails that were personal and the balance were handed over to the FBI and special investigators. Her private server ( service provider) was never hacked. Parts of the State Department Server was hacked 17 times in the last 6 years. So far just 92 documents in those 40,000 emails have been declared 6 years after the fact "sensitive "or needing a high security clearance.The Investigators have equally reconciled emails sent to Hillary Clinton private server and vice versa from her State Department Employees on State Department Servers with the 40,000 emails she has turned over. There are no additional State Department emails that are not also in the 40,000 unit emails .
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — two highly public figures long known for their aversion to disclosure — are suddenly in a heated competition over who's more open about their health and wealth.
It was only after that footage of the near swoon emerged that Clinton’s campaign revealed that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier — and acknowledged they could have handled the situation better. (Though Clinton's communications director tweeted on Monday that "in contrast to HRC, Trump has been less transparent than any nominee in modern history.")
On Tuesday, the campaign made sure to provide an update to the press: "HRC is feeling better and still plans to remain at home today. Shouldn't be many updates but will send check-ins periodically to keep you all posted."
Trump is facing his own pressure to disclosure more — on many more fronts. The Republican nominee has refused to release his tax returns, citing a long-running and routine IRS audit of returns from 2009 and forward, or provide more details about his charitable giving through his foundation.
But on the health issue, he’s also promising to offer up more information, in typical Trump style – a grand reveal of the results of his physical last week will go down on an episode of “The Dr. Oz Show” that will tape Wednesday and air Thursday.
Still, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, engaged in at times tense interviews on Tuesday in which she said “we all have a right to privacy” and had a blunt answer when asked if Trump would reveal more specifics about Trump's charitable contributions — "I doubt it."
Such questioning is "like badgering," and "in other words, I don't see it as journalism," Conway explained to CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day."
Camerota, who noted that running mate Mike Pence had made reference to Trump giving away tens of millions of dollars to charity, demanded to know how it was "badgering" if she was merely asking for evidence to back up a claim.
Conway shot back by accusing the media of a double standard with its treatment of Clinton, whose "two pillar problems," she said, are "transparency and trustworthiness."
"We're glad she said she's feeling better. We hope she's fully recovering and she comes back to the campaign trail soon," Conway said, before adding, "But why all the furtiveness? Why the concealment? What's the big deal just to say, I have pneumonia and I’m on antibiotics?"
Campaigning on behalf of Clinton in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama chafed at the mere comparison between Clinton and Trump when it comes to transparency.
"This is serious business. And when we see folks talking about transparency — you want to debate transparency? You’ve got one candidate in this debate who's released decades worth of her tax returns. The other candidate is the first in decades who refuses to release any at all," Obama said. "You want to debate foundations and charities? One candidate's family foundation has saved countless lives around the world. The other candidate's foundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself. I mean, I — you know, he had the taste not to go for the 10-foot version but—"
Continuing with his vent session, Obama pronounced Clinton as the paragon of presidential experience and qualifications next to another "who isn't fit in any way, shape, or form to represent this country abroad and be its commander-in-chief."
Trump, whose sole medical note came last December from gastroenterologist Harold Bornstein, is set to be on the receiving end of what Oz, a TV star and licensed doctor, promised "pointed questions about his health." But in the same interview aired Tuesday on Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade & Friends," Oz acknowledged that he is "not going to ask him questions he doesn't want to have answered and I also don't want to talk about anyone else."
"We’re not going to be talking about Secretary Clinton for sure. And I don’t want to talk about things that are outside the health purview," Oz explained. "But I do not believe we can have a wealthy country without being a healthy country. And so I do think people want to understand, well what happens to my health care if Mr. Trump is elected, and more importantly, what kind of role model is he for health in our country?”
Should Trump put any limitations on what can be discussed, Oz said, "I'll acknowledge them, but I must say, his campaign has been very professional about this, they haven’t asked me for anything."
Discussing Oz's comments on MSNBC, Conway told Andrea Mitchell that she did not know whether Bornstein was the physician who examined Trump last week, adding, "I was not present for his physical."
Pressed on further details, Conway remarked, "I'm with Dr. Oz and millions of Americans on this. I don't know why we need such extensive medical reporting when we all have a right to privacy?"
"And frankly, I'm also with most of the American people who are very upset that many of them had to change doctors under Obamacare. Why would someone change a doctor when they have been healthy for so long?" she said. "I think that is being lost in the conversation."
The letter released by Bornstein last year stated that Trump had seen the same doctor since 1980, with his father seeing him for a few years before then. Conway protested when CNN’s Camerota brought up some of the more unusual language employed in the letter, such as the "astonishingly excellent" lab results or the declaration that Trump, "if elected will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."
Camerota inquired, "So how can this be considered transparent?"
"Wow. You can laugh all you want at the medical report, but as far as I can see, there are two major party candidates running for president and only one of them has pneumonia and lied about it, especially to the press, because she always thinks that she has — she treats you all like second-class citizens, won't have a press conference, and when she pretends to have press avail, I'm going to be uplifting and aspirational, then goes on to attack tens of millions of Americans the very next day," Conway shot back.
Asked what, specifically, Trump will be releasing in the way of medical records, Conway said she did not know, "but I'll tell you what he won't be releasing. He won't be releasing the fact that he had pneumonia for two days and lied about it."
"Lied, or didn't disclose? Is there a difference?" Camerota asked.
Conway mused, "I guess if we're talking about Hillary Clinton, lying and didn't disclose is so different, right? It's always parsing the words. Excuse me, respectfully, one person is off the campaign trail right now. We wish her well. We're glad that she told Anderson Cooper last night that she's feeling better, that she expects to rejoin the campaign trail. We'll see her at the debates."
Turning to Trump's tax records, Conway took umbrage at Camerota's questioning of whether he would release evidence from the IRS that he is, in fact, under an audit.
"I don't know, why? In other words, why are you —are you calling him a liar?" Conway parried, to which Camerota responded, "Well we're taking his word for it."
Conway repeated, "Are you calling him a liar?"
"And we're taking Hillary Clinton's word for that she was overheated and didn't have pneumonia, or that she's going to be aspirational, uplifting, or that she's going to start talking to the press again. I mean, seriously, we're running against a Clinton and we're going to challenge someone's veracity?" Conway asked with a note of exasperation.
But unlike Conway, Oz got at least a few chuckles out of a question about the note from Bornstein ( Trump's long haired earringed doctor) when asked whether he had ever written a diagnosis like that.
“No, I haven’t written one like that," Oz laughed. "It’s a little out of the ordinary. I want to see
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