October 4, 2016
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence defended Donald Trump for apparently not paying any taxes for years during the presidential debate, while Democrat Tim Kaine laid into Trump on the issue. Pence initially didn’t answer a question on whether it was fair for Trump to pay no taxes for years but was pressed by moderator […]
October 4, 2016
Eric Trump on Tuesday delivered a starkly frank explanation for why his father is reluctant to release his tax returns, saying the media would obsess over them. “They would go through every single page for the last 400 years and they would make issue of everything,” Eric Trump said Tuesday morning in an appearance on […]
October 4, 2016
On Saturday evening, when the New York Times released its explosive report that Donald Trump had claimed a $915 million loss on his 1995 taxes and possibly hadn’t paid federal taxes in the 18 years that followed, it was a clear sign that the election had entered a new phase. Though the revelation itself was […]
October 4, 2016
Donald Trump, still on defense in the wake of revelations about his tax returns and huge losses his businesses sustained in the 1990s, tried to put the focus on his opponent on Tuesday, arguing that Hillary Clinton should have changed the tax laws he benefited from while she was a senator. “I ask a simple […]
October 4, 2016
HARRISBURG, PA — Hillary Clinton isn’t satisfied with the revelation that Donald Trump lost close to $1 billion in 1995, and likely avoided paying income tax for years afterward — she thinks that could just be the tip of the iceberg. “There’s more in there,” she told reporters at a press conference following a rally […]
October 4, 2016
Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday evening firmly declared his support for the Affordable Care Act, after causing a dust-up by referring to some of the effects of President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement as “the craziest thing in the world.” “I want to say this one thing about the healthcare law, because that’s another […]
October 4, 2016
With Sen. Kelly Ayotte squirming after referring to Donald Trump as a “role model” on the debate stage Monday night, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared on Tuesday that there’s no question the billionaire is a “winner.” Priebus said that Trump’s journey through business and life provides the type of story that children can […]
October 4, 2016
Donald Trump, under fire over his taxes, is casting himself as a champion of the little guy when it comes to rewriting the tax code, but there’s little in his plan that matches his rhetoric. His promises to stick it to the rich notwithstanding, independent analyses agree the top 1 percent would be the biggest […]
October 4, 2016
WAYNE, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie largely stuck to his script for school funding and education reform during a town hall in Wayne on Tuesday, making no direct mention of the latest developments in the Bridgegate trial, even after a woman in the audience held up a sign that read “GWB / Abuse of Power” […]
October 4, 2016
For every general election debate this year, there is a journalist waiting in the wings at the debate hall, ready to sit in the moderator’s chair should an emergency or illness arise. This year, that person is Steve Scully, C-SPAN’s Political Editor and host of “Washington Journal.” While covering the debates like the hundreds of […]