Warren Buffett, the veteran investor, has directly challenged Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns and criticized him for speaking against the parents of the US soldier who was martyred at the Iraq war.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday campaigned alongside Democrat Hillary Clinton at a rowdy rally in his home state of Nebraska, where he challenged Republican Donald Trump to release his tax returns and said he would personally drive people to the polls in November.
After delivering a forceful rebuke of Trump’s recent statements about the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq, Buffett said he wanted to surprise Clinton and “make a little news” by announcing the launch of a get-out-the vote effort.
Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate is based in Omaha, stressed that this gives power to Omaha residents to affect the outcome of the election.
Buffett spoke for nearly 30 minutes to a raucous capacity crowd of roughly 3100 in a high school in suburban Omaha with Clinton sitting at his side. He said the “final straw” was an ABC interview with Trump that aired Sunday in which Trump criticized Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan.
The Khans took the stage together at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and Khizr Khan delivered a speech about his son, US Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed by a bomb in Iraq 12 years ago. He also attacked Trump for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States (US).
“No member of the Buffett family has gone to Iraq or Afghanistan. No member of the Trump family has gone to Iraq or Afghanistan," Buffett said. “We’ve both done extremely well during this period and our families haven’t sacrificed anything,” he said.
Watch the speech here:
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 "Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Warren Buffett, right, arrive at a rally at Omaha North High Magnet School in Omaha.")
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