Hillary Clinton discloses details on health, tax returns

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband paid close to $44 million in federal taxes since 2007 and she is in “excellent physical condition” – two facts that emerged Friday in a flood of disclosures about the Democratic presidential candidate pushed out by her campaign on a busy summer day.

Within a three-hour period, the State Department made public more than 2,200 pages of emails sent from Clinton’s personal account, her campaign released a letter from her personal doctor about her health and she unveiled eight years of tax returns.

Campaign aides cast the records dump as part of an effort to compete with Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on the issue of transparency.

The Clintons earned more than $139 million between 2007 and 2014, according to the returns, and made almost $15 million in charitable contributions – including a $3 million donation to their family foundation in 2014. Last year, they paid an overall federal tax rate of 35.7 percent.

The couple made nearly $23 million from speaking fees alone in 2013 – the year Clinton left the State Department.

The financial release came just hours after Dr. Lisa Bardack, an internist and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group near the candidate’s suburban New York home, publicly detailed Clinton’s health in a two-page letter.

The report said Clinton, who is 67, has fully recovered from a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting, an episode that Bardack attributed to a stomach virus and dehydration.

Associated Press