When you board a plane, you go through T.S.A. screening. When you
run for president, you go through vetting. I am going to ignore Ted Cruz
and John Kasich in this mix, if you can forgive that. Of the remaining
candidates,
Hillary Clinton has released documents as follows and posted links to all of them on her website.
Physician's letter
Hillary Clinton 2013 speech income
President Clinton 2013 speech income
2014 tax return
2014 signature page
2013 tax return
2013 signature page
2012 tax return
2012 signature page
2011 tax return
2011 signature page
2010 tax return
2010 signature page
2009 tax return
2008 tax return
2007 tax return
In contrast, Bernie Sanders has released one year of tax returns. There is this.
Donald
Trump, for example, has consistently refused to release his tax
returns, saying it would be unwise to do so while his tax filings are
under audit by the Internal Revenue Service. Trump released a letter
from his tax attorneys saying the IRS is examining his tax filings
since 2009, while filings between 2002 through 2008 “have been closed
administratively by agreement without assessment or payment, on a net
basis, of any deficiency.” There is no prohibition against making public
tax returns under IRS review and the letter did not explain why at
least Trump’s 2002-2008 filings have not been released.
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There is one entry from 2014
available for Sanders on the Tax History Project website: a Form 1040
(a summary of his federal income tax return) and a one-page Vermont
state income tax return. The campaign referred to this entry when we
inquired about Sanders’s claim.
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As
for Hillary Clinton's resumé, I cannot think of anyone with more pubic a
record. Neither does any candidate running have a public service
record so broad, so deep, and so successful both on the domestic side
and on the foreign policy side.
Bernie Sanders did say this last night in the City of Brotherly Love.
"Now
the other day, I think, Secretary Clinton appeared to be getting a
little bit nervous," he began. "We have won, we have won seven out of
eight of the recent primaries and caucuses. And she has been saying
lately that she thinks that I am, quote unquote, not qualified to be
president.
"Well let me, let me just say in response to Secretary
Clinton: I don't believe that she is qualified if she is, if she is,
through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special
interest funds," he said. "I don't think you are qualified if you get
$15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC."
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First
of all, Super PACs are not a disqualifying factor even if many wish
that were not the case. Second, there are many more aspects to
qualification aside from the derivation of funds. Finally, beyond being
qualified, presidential candidates must pass the aforementioned
vetting.
Hillary Clinton continually tells audiences that she will
not make wild promises she cannot keep. She will not overpromise.
Bernie Sanders makes broad , sweeping promises and cannot cite the
mechanisms by which these promises become policy. In other words, he overpromises. Much of what he plans to do - well -
has no plan that he can explain. So there's that.
Hillary Clinton has been overvetted over 40 years
in the public lens. Bernie Sanders has not been vetted at all and is
hardly the party to call out Secretary Clinton on her qualifications.
For that matter, neither has Donald Trump been vetted, and Sanders has
said nothing about his qualifications.
This morning at Yankee Stadium, Hillary sought to douse the flames a bit.
Theodore Schleifer, CNN
Clinton
herself has never said Sanders isn't qualified to be president. When
asked Wednesday on MSNBC if she thought Sanders was "ready to be
president," she said: "I think he hadn't done his homework and he'd been
talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously
hadn't really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of
questions."
"Really
what that goes to is for voters to ask themselves can he deliver what
he's talking about," she had said, referring to an
extensive interview Sanders had given with the New York Daily News
during which he struggled to answer policy questions related to his
signature issue -- reforming Wall Street -- and other topics such as gun
control and foreign policy.
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Hillary brought everything back into focus in two sentences. Yes, it
is up to the voters, and it is not Bernie's call!
This is from an email this morning from the campaign.
Last
night, Bernie Sanders crossed a line and said: "[Hillary] thinks I'm
not quote-unquote qualified to be president. Let me just say in
response, I don't believe she is qualified."
Two things:
1. I don't know why he said "quote-unquote" -- she's never said that.
2. This is a ridiculous and irresponsible attack for someone to make --
not just against the person who is almost certainly going to be the
nominee of their party this November, but against someone who is one of
the most qualified people to run for the presidency in the HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES.
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