Donald Trump will surrender his 1040 when you pry it from his cold, dead, tiny hands. But you won’t, because nobody really cares.
Donald Trump on Thursday night again indicated that he has no plans to release his tax returns, saying that he won't be motivated to release them even if Hillary Clinton releases the transcripts of the speeches she gave at Wall Street banks.
He would not, could not show his forms. Will not, still not, though it’s the norm.
Van Susteren pressed Trump, asking why he is unwilling to release tax returns that are no longer under audit, even if he still refuses to publicize his most recent documents.
"Most people don't care about it," Trump responded. "I’ve had very, very little pressure.”
While this statement is patently ridiculous—Trump has to be aware of the level of interest in his taxes, since he’s certainly swatted that interest away often enough—it’s also an indictment of the media that keeps gifting Trump with time without requiring that anything he says be true. Which doesn't have to be the case.
John Heilemann: Its unprecedented, it's ridiculous, its outrageous and you know, we've tried as often as possible to try to put pressure on him. There’s only so much we can do, we can't literally try to pry these audits out of his hands.
There’s one thing you could try: Stop talking to him. Stop letting him have millions of dollars in free time to say whatever he wants when 70 percent of everything he says is simply a lie in the first place.
Tell Trump that the price of being on the air is releasing his taxes. Then maybe he’ll feel a little pressure