“TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (BorowitzReport) — A blazing fire that ravaged Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Terre Haute, Indiana, destroyed more than just the building, campaign officials revealed today.
A spokesman for the Clinton campaign said that the 2007 tax returns of Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, went up in flames along with everything else.
In fact, according to a spokesman for the Terre Haute Fire Department, the tax returns may have been ignited first, setting off the conflagration that burned the building to the ground.
“Based on our initial investigation, it looks like gasoline was poured all over the tax returns and then set ablaze,” said THFD spokesman Tracy Klujian. “Whoever did this has experience in destroying records.”
While the Terre Haute police have yet to name any suspects in the inferno, an eyewitness to the fire said he saw a “person in a yellow pantsuit with black trimming” fleeing the building moments after the campaign headquarters caught on fire.
At a press conference in Pittsburgh, Mrs. Clinton said that the incineration of her tax records was “a great personal loss,” adding, “I was so looking forward to sharing them with the American people.”
Mrs. Clinton cut her press conference short after a protracted coughing fit, complaining of smoke inhalation.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/fire-in-clinton-campaign_b_96210.html
That would be Satire.
The HuffPo linked story is from April, 2008 but it is interesting that she was complaining of smoke inhalation and, keep in mind, Hillary was running for president in the spring of 2008. Curious why something as personal as a tax return would happen to be in Terre Haute, IN and not, say, Arkansas or New York or Washington. Could it have been planted so as to be destroyed in the fire?
This doesn’t make sense. the IRS would have copies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/fire-in-clinton-campaign_b_96210.html
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At the bottom of the article online it says the author is a comedian.
Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and at his award-winning humor site, BorowitzReport.com.
Why wouldn’t the IRS have a copy of this tax return?