Clinton: ‘What Kind of Genius Loses a Billion Dollars In a Single Year?’

Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump over the revelation that he lost nearly a billion dollars in a single year and may have used the enormous loss to avoid paying income tax for close to 20 years, according to a bombshell report in the New York Times.

Speaking at a rally in Toldeo, Ohio, Monday afternoon, Clinton accused Trump of having “made all those bad bets and lost all that money,” and using his accountants and political connections to avoid paying taxes, while leaving his contractors and employees in the dust. “They all got hammered,” she said.

“In other words Trump was taking from America with both hands and leaving the rest of us with the bill,” she said.

She continued: “He has put forth a tax plan that would cut his own taxes even more. It would be like, ‘You’re paying zero, you expect us to pay you to stay in business?'”

Mocking his image as a business genius, Clinton said, “What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?” The Times reported on Saturday that Trump declared a $916 million loss for 1995.

During the first presidential debate, Trump said if he avoided paying income tax, that made him “smart.”

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Sam Reisman (@thericeman) is a staff editor at Mediaite.

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