Clinton: There must be 'something terrible' in Trump's taxes

With just a few hours to go until Election Day, Hillary Clinton told millions of Americans that there is one thing they won't see before they go to the polls on Tuesday: Donald Trump's tax returns.

"I'm still pondering, just pondering, how anybody can lose $1 billion in one year, especially when you're running casinos,” Clinton told supporters at a rally in Allendale, Michigan, on Monday afternoon. “But that will be one of the mysteries in this campaign, because he's not going to release his tax returns between now and the time you start voting and that sort of suggests there must something terrible in those tax returns, because everyone else for over 40 years has released them.”


As Clinton pointed out, Trump's refusal to release his tax returns breaks with decades of tradition on both sides of the aisle. The Republican nominee has said he has declined to release his returns because he is under a routine audit from the Internal Revenue Service, although one of his own sons offered another explanation — that journalists would be overzealous in reporting on such a release.

The New York Times had obtained snippets of the New York mogul’s returns from the 1990s, but that is the closest voters have gotten to reading details about Trump's tax payments and charitable giving.