The list is too long to memorize, but fortunately the Washington Post put together a complete guide to all the reasons Donald Trump has given for why he won’t release his tax returns, and then shot them down one by one, including the most recent, which his son, Donald Trump Jr., offered Wednesday on the Doug Wright Show on KSL News Radio:
When you have a business record, a business track record of my father and 40 years of it, there’s a lot in a 12,000-page tax return that wouldn’t make sense to open up.”
Or, as Trump Jr. put it last month in a story that ran in the Daily Kos:
"...you would have a bunch of people who know nothing about taxes" looking through them and making "assumptions on things they know nothing about."
Of course, because if voters or tax experts looked at the return they would learn whether Trump actually made any donations to the charities he claims he did, (for which there is no evidence yet), and from which they might make the assumption that the GOP presidential nominee is a liar.
David Farenhold of the Washington Post is trying hard to nail that story down, but what he hasn't found is pretty damning. He hasn’t found any evidence that Trump has actually donated his own money to any charity.
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In his appearance on the Doug Wright Show, Trump Jr. added:
...our tax counsel, going through a 12,000-page tax return, has said they wouldn’t advise us to do it (release it). It could create all sorts of other problems. I’m going to listen to them on that.”
The easiest way to solve the problems would be to release the tax return.