“He’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message,” Trump Jr. said
Kid obviously has no idea how much 12,000 pages of paper is.
And nothing can be allowed to distract from [his father’s] main message of hatred and bigotry.
The only people who want to see Trump’s tax returns are people who understand numbers and neither Trump nor his campaign has any interest in such people. The only number Trump has ever been interested in is his bottom line. Its steady decrease is doubtless one of the factors that led him to run for president.
Trump cannot release his tax returns because it is likely that they show:
- his net worth is considerably less than he claims and consists mostly of an inflated estimate of the value of his “brand”.
- his income is much smaller than he claims and consists most of profits from offshore manufacturing in China and Mexico.
- his charitable contributions consist mostly of free rounds of golf at his various golf courses all valued at at least three times their actual value.
- he is heavily in debt to the Russian mafia.
- he is about to be indicted for tax fraud and income tax evasion.
- any, all, or a few of the above.
By all means, let there be no questions raised about Trump’s taxes or business dealings.