Reports revealing the Bill and Hillary Clinton “booked nearly $400,000 in capital gains between 2000 and 2006,” have called into question the former president’s claims that he and Hillary have paid “almost no capital gains” in the past 15 years. The Daily Caller,
But a Daily Caller analysis shows the Clintons may have incurred vastly more capital gains than that: between $2 million and $7.4 million.
“Over the last 15 years, I’ve taken almost no capital gains and I’ve given 10 percent away,” Bill Clinton said in an interview with NBC that aired on Monday.
Buzzfeed and The New York Times fact-checked that by analyzing the power couples’ publicly available IRS filings. According to filings for the period between 2000 and 2006 — the only years available — the Clintons reported $371,000 in capital gains, mostly from the sale of property.
But Hillary Clinton’s 2007 Senate financial disclosure report shows the couple may have recorded capital gains as much as 20 times larger than that…
A complete tally of all stock sales shows the Clintons racked up between $2,083,100 and $7,390,500 in capital gains.
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