Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unintentionally gave the country a good laugh with the State Department’s release of an email detailing her epic struggle to work a fax machine but trolled Fox News’ Ed Henry by responding to a question about her private email server being wiped with the obtuse, “like with a cloth or something”?
When her opponent Bernie Sanders was pressed to release his tax returns during Thursday night’s #DemDebate in New York, however, Clinton, whose staff has proved adept with the paper shredder, was quick to inform him that there’s another piece of technology called the “copy machine.”
Hilary Clinton goes in hard on copy machines, am I reading that exchange right
— king of stuffing (@AndyLame) April 15, 2016
Hillary on Bernie "we haven't been home to get our taxes" –> "There are a lot of copy machines."
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) April 15, 2016
Hillary: "There are lot of copy machines"
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) April 15, 2016
THERE ARE A LOT OF COPY MACHINES AROUND. #DemDebate
— Matt Shiv (@shivvy) April 15, 2016
Wait… Hillary just said there are lots of copy machines for Bernie to release his tax records. pic.twitter.com/3isuhXompd
— Adam PETErs (@AdamPeters) April 15, 2016
@thaiguy84 does Bernie know how to operate a photocopier or does he still use carbon paper?
— June (@tldrjune) April 15, 2016
@mimsicality I'm sure he yells at his fax/copier but let's not talk about those 2 and technology…
— Peter (@thaiguy84) April 15, 2016
Not that Clinton needed it, but CNN’s Wolf Blitzer jumped in with the assist, informing Sanders that there’s another invention called the “file cabinet.”
https://twitter.com/AndDube/status/720785485296242688
Blitzer on why Sanders still hasn't released past years tax returns: "You just have to go to the filing cabinet, make a copy & release them"
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) April 15, 2016
How does Wolf Blitzer know Bernie has a filing cabinet?! #DemDebate
— Todd Barry (@toddbarry) April 15, 2016
"There are lots of copy machines around" and Wolf says they are in your filing cabinet. Who keeps those things?!
— Tristan Sloughter ? (@t_sloughter) April 15, 2016
Does Bernie look like a guy with a filing cabinet? I mean come on, Wolf.
— Tristan Sloughter ? (@t_sloughter) April 15, 2016
Like HRC doesn't have to "go to the filing cabinet" to release the Wall Street transcripts. #DemDebate
— Annie Parker (@tweetinannie) April 15, 2016
Sanders eventually managed a semi-promise to release his previous year’s tax return “tomorrow,” but passed the responsibility to his wife, who does the taxes in the Sanders household and probably knows a post office or library that has a copier.
Oooh, one years worth of taxes. And no answer, except "Jane does them" and "We will get them out". Lame. #DemDebate
— Oregonemom (@Oregonemom) April 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/Terry2790/status/720784822726168576
"Jane does our taxes" SICK BERN!
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) April 15, 2016
"Jane does 'em."
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) April 15, 2016
How is "Jane does our taxes" an excuse for not releasing tax returns?
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) April 15, 2016
If he says Jane does his taxes one more time I'm going to assume he's advertising her tax preparation services to the public.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) April 15, 2016
Hillary doesn't have a "Jane does them" answer for her Goldman transcripts, of course.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 15, 2016
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