Eric Trump says it would be foolish for his father to release his tax returns while he is supposedly under audit by the IRS. "There is no tax attorney in the world who will tell you to release your tax returns while you’re under a standard routine audit", says Eric. Eric goes on to further insult Americans by claiming, "You would have a bunch of people who know nothing about taxes trying to look through and trying to come up with assumptions on something they know nothing about." Apparently, Eric does not believe there are any Americans competent enough to analyze a tax return. Instead he suggests that the most important factor is not Trump's tax returns but at his assets. "You learn a lot more when you look at a person’s assets. You know how many hotels we have around the world? You know how many golf courses we have around the world?", says Eric. Actually we don't. We really have no idea whether Trump is merely a front man or whether he really has ownership interests in these worldwide properties. And that is why it would be nice to see Trump's taxes. Of course another good reason is that he is running for President of the United States and, as citizens, we should have a right to know what his financial profile actually looks like. Even though I doubt that this is the case, I think Americans have a right to know if Donald owes millions of dollars to Russian oligarchs, don't you? I would expect the same of every candidate running for President. There is no rule or regulation stopping Trump from releasing his taxes. And there are plenty of years of trump's taxes that even he admits are not under audit, but he still refuses to release those too.
The fact that Trump refuses to release his taxes should really automatically disqualify him from being President. And the media should pound away on this every single day. Because if Trump is allowed to get away with it this years, we may never see another candidate's taxes again. And that would be just one more blow to American democracy.
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