Remember when Eric Trump said people are too ignorant to understand his dad's taxes?
His son, Eric Trump, said Wednesday on CNBC not much can be learned from tax returns. He said his father's returns are massive and "you would have a bunch of people who know nothing about taxes" looking through them and making "assumptions on things they know nothing about."
Well, Donald Jr. didn’t want his bro to have all the fun. Only Junior phrased it a bit differently.
“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 in a Wednesday interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
12,000 pages? That happens to be the length of the complete Encyclopedia Britannica. If Donald Trump has a 12,000 page tax return it has to be stuffed with newspaper clippings and some essays on why his hands are completely normal. Which … sounds possible.
The common theme with both Sons of Trump? It’s not the audit that’s keeping Big Donald’s paperwork in the dark, it’s that pesky people-looking-at-it part that makes everyone uncomfortable.
If Donald Trump were to release his taxes, people would be “looking at them” and “asking questions.” Which is why they’re not getting released.
You have to hand it to the boys. That’s a more honest answer than anything their father has said.