Host Mark Halperin: “So, you will release how many years?”
Jane Sanders: “I don’t know. How many do you want, Mark?”
Halperin: “I think the Clintons have released eight [years] or even more.”
Sanders: “Well they’ve been in office all these years.”
Halperin: “Senator Sanders has been in the House and Senate –“
Sanders: “Right, and every election, we’ve released them.”
Halperin: “You’ll release the whole returns, not just a summary?”
Sanders: “We did when he ran for election. Yeah. So, I’ll release this year’s as soon as they are due, and can I have time to go home?”
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Jane Sanders, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, is the keeper of tax records in the household, according to the candidate. Yet she repeated a claim similar to her husband’s recent Four Pinocchio statement that the couple released their full tax returns over several years. (This claim earned the “fact-checkers’ trifecta,” when the three major fact-checking organizations — Washington Post Fact Checker, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org — debunk the same claim.)
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We reached out to the Sanders campaign to find out whether any new tax records have been released in the past week, but did not receive a response. The Sanders campaign had told The Washington Post on April 4, 2016, that it has not released other tax returns prior to the 2014 tax summary it released in 2015. We have not found any indication that the campaign has released any new tax returns since then, or that the Sanderses released full tax returns “every election.”
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