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ANDREWHARNIK—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Hillary Clinton greets a member of the audience as she arrives at a rally at the Downtown Toledo Train Station in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday. ByKenThomasand Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press TOLEDO, OHIO Hillary Clinton tore into Donald Trump's tax history, busi- ness acumen and trust- worthiness Monday as she sought to capitalize on news that the New York real estate mogul may not have paid federal taxes for years — one of several rev- elations that rattled the Re- publican presidential candi- date's campaign. Campaigning at a down- town Toledo train station, Clinton cast Trump as a cold-hearted and bungling businessman who "repre- sents the same rigged sys- temthatheclaimshe'sgoing to change." She called for a new law requiring presiden- tial candidates from major parties to release their tax returns, something Trump has refused to do, and she accused Trump of shirking his responsibility as a tax- payer. "He's taken corporate ex- cess and made a business model out of it," she said. "It's Trump first and every- one else last." The Democrat's broad- side was her first response to a weekend New York Times report that Trump claimed a loss of nearly $916 million in a single year on his personal income taxes. The Times said the size of the loss could have allowed Trump to avoid owing fed- eral taxes for nearly two de- cades, an assertion his cam- paign neither confirmed nor disputed. Trump made no refer- ence to the tax trouble at an event with veterans in Vir- ginia Monday, but at a later event he said he had paid as little taxes "as legally possi- ble" as was his duty as the head of a major real estate company. He also dispatched sev- eral surrogates to mount his defense. His allies noted the Times report did not al- lege wrongdoing and they contended the Republican presidential candidate was a "genius" for using the tax system to rebuild his for- tune. The Clinton campaign seized on the comment with a new TV ad, asking "If not paying taxes makes him smart, what does that make the rest of us?" In her remarks, a lengthy outline of her economic principles, Clinton mocked: "What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?" Other Trump troubles mounted. Former cast and crew members from the reality TV show "The Ap- prentice" described for the first time his treatment of women on the set. The show insiders told The Associated Press that Trump rated fe- male contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd like to have sex with. The campaign issued a broad denial, calling the claims "totally false." Also Monday, the New York attorney general's of- fice ordered the Trump Foundation to immedi- ately stop fundraising in the state, saying it isn't reg- istered to do so. The back-to-back bad news piled on a week of Trump missteps and his increasingly aggressive per- sonal attacks on Clinton. Since a rocky debate last week, Trump has engaged in a distracting feud with a former beauty queen he called "Miss Piggy" because she gained weight during her reign. He seemed to try to shift the conversa- tion Saturday night when he suggested, without ev- idence, that Clinton may have cheated on her hus- band. Trump's campaign is searching for a way to rat- tle Clinton — while also getting control of its own message. The new rev- elations only make that harder. While the incom- plete tax records published the Times show no irregu- larities, the size of Trump's loss cuts at a core tenet of his presidential bid — his remarkable business suc- cess. Meanwhile, his boor- ish comments to women are threatening to turn away fe- male voters. Clinton tears into Trump on his taxes CAMPAIGN 2016 The Associated Press DURHAM,NORTHCAROLINA A new generation of Amer- ican voters has few if any profound political memo- ries of any president other than Barack Obama, and that appears to be having an effect on how they per- ceive their choices for his successor. A new GenForward sur- vey suggests millennials as a whole disapprove over- whelmingly of Republican presidential nominee Don- ald Trump, and interviews with college students in the battleground state of North Carolina found many first- time voters see the 70-year- old real estate mogul as of- fensive, unprepared and even racist. About 60 percent of those voters age 18 to 30, meanwhile, approve of the job Obama is doing. Yet those sentiments don't necessarily benefit Democratic nominee Hill- ary Clinton, 68, raising questions about whether the former secretary of state can generate the same level of support among an age bracket that helped Obama win two terms. Here's what some mil- lennial voters have to say about Clinton, Trump, Obama and the state of the nation. ••• Duke University gradu- ate student Jennifer Len- art, 23, is considering third-party choices, argu- ing that another Clinton administration would be dominated, fairly or not, by controversy and gridlock: "I do like her, but be- cause of what I keep hear- ing, it's too much, too over- whelming. I'd rather start from a clean slate so we don't have to deal with this anymore." ••• Joey Abbate, a 21-year- old varsity wrestler at Duke, describes himself as a Republican unhappy with the state of the nation. The California native will vote for Trump, but says he isn't confident in his choice: "There needs to be some change, and I don't really see that coming with Clin- ton. ... I know there would be some change with Trump. I just don't know whether it would be good or bad. It's tough to know because he doesn't have any political background. I feel like with Trump you're almost in the dark, you know. ... With Clinton you kind of know what you're getting." ••• Thayer Atkins, a 20-year- old Duke student and var- sity wrestler from Texas, says he's a Republican who opposed Obama's re- election and will vote for Trump, but he doesn't "fear" another Democratic administration: "While some things have happened I don't agree with, I don't really think that's the case that we're going down the tubes. ... I'm not sitting here say- ing, 'If Hillary gets elected, that's the nail in the coffin. We're done.' I just think she gets us farther away from where I think we need to be." ••• Micah English, a 21-year- old Duke student from Maryland who supports Clinton, says she tries to dissuade her fellow mil- lennials from voting for a third-party candidate. "If you want to advance a cause against the two (ma- jor) parties, it is not done by voting for president. Do that at the local and state level. Build the legitimacy of the party. Get more people on your side. Make the ideas more mainstream. That's not how I think American democracy would be, but that is the system we have. It would be great if Gary Johnson or Jill Stein could win a national election, but they can't." ••• Vikram Seethpalli, a 19-year-old Duke student, backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, but says Clinton is clearly preferable to Trump: "One of the main things I hear (from fellow mil- lennials) is just wanting a change in Washington, no matter what it is. The other is people thinking she's completely untrustworthy." ••• Ben Ezroni, 19, of New York describes himself as a reluctant Trump supporter: "I'mtiredoftheGOPandthe same old politicians. But I feel like Hillary brings that same image as well. When I think of Hillary, I think of special interest groups, I think about the Clinton Foundation, all that stuff. I'm just looking for some- thing different. I feel like that'swhatObamabrought." 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