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Warren: Trump ‘too chicken’ to release tax returns

by Jesse Byrnes - 09/15/16 5:33 PM ET

.@SenWarren says Donald Trump is "too chicken to show his tax returns to the American people." pic.twitter.com/NBLD0e1THb

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 15, 2016

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday accused Donald Trump of being “too chicken” to release his tax returns as Democrats ramped up pressure on the GOP presidential nominee.

“Donald Trump makes a big show of strutting around pretending to be tough, but he’s too chicken to show his tax returns to the American people,” Warren said on the Senate floor.

{mosads}“He’s had a million excuses, but we all know why Donald Trump isn’t releasing his taxes: He’s hiding something,” Warren said.

Warren said media coverage of Trump’s candidacy has revealed “some clues” about what Trump is allegedly hiding, speaking to three “tax scams” involving Trump.

She listed Trump claiming a tax credit for homeowners making less than $500,000 a year, not paying income tax after accepting real estate developer subsidies and Trump claiming a charitable deduction when giving money to his Trump Foundation before turning around to use the foundation for “personal expenses and campaign fundraising” as examples of such “scams.”

Warren delivered her speech in support of the Presidential Tax Transparency Act, which Democrats are pushing, arguing Trump is breaking decades of tradition in refusing to release his taxes.

Trump has repeatedly said he won’t release his taxes until an audit is completed and has downplayed the importance of releasing them, arguing the public isn’t concerned with what they might show.

Warren is hitting the campaign trail this weekend in Ohio on behalf of Trump’s rival Democrat Hillary Clinton. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will also campaign in the state after Clinton’s recent slip in polls.

Trump on Monday reprised his “Pocahontas” nickname for Warren, something he has used in past months in pushing back against criticism from the Democratic senator.

Every major party Presidential candidate should release their tax returns. And they all do – except @realDonaldTrump. He’s just too chicken.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 15, 2016

We don’t know what @realDonaldTrump is hiding in his taxes. What new tax scams he’s running. Which foreign dictators have him on the take.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 15, 2016

.@realDonaldTrump won’t release his taxes voluntarily. Let’s pass the Presidential Tax Transparency Act and make sure he comes clean.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 15, 2016

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