claim: "traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . mitt romney still won’t."
author: democratic national committee
evidence_1: jul 16, 2012 ... atlanta (cnn) -- mitt romney has insisted that he will only release two years of his personal income taxes. but while candidates running for president are not legally obligated to release their taxes, there is a long tradition of doing so, in addition to public financial disclosure laws candidates m...
evidence_2: jan 17, 2012 ... the democratic national committee has been less diplomatic. earlier this month, it produced a web video, complete with horror-movie background music, claiming that traditionally, all presidential and vice presidential candidates have released their tax records, “but romney won't.” “what is mitt romney ...
evidence_3: sep 28, 2016 ... says that except for donald trump, "every other major party nominee" for the past 40 years has released their tax returns. — tammy baldwin on ... donald trump has resisted calls to release his tax returns, something that is common for presidential nominees over the past 40 years. (bloomberg photo).
evidence_4: sep 15, 2016 ... when asked why his father has not released his tax returns as presidential candidates have traditionally done, trump jr. said, “because he's got a ... the revelation that mitt romney paid only a 14 percent effective tax rate in 2011 became part of a larger argument about romney as rich and out of touch and ...
evidence_5: aug 5, 2016 ... in most cases, candidates make their filings public around tax time in april, before their conventions and several months prior to the election. the only republican or democratic candidate to release after the convention was mitt romney in 2012. the delay allowed opponents to wrongly claim that romney ...