Eric Trump: It Would Be ‘Foolish’ for Donald Trump to Release Tax Returns

Might be prudent to muzzle Eric - the contempt of a trust fund baby for the unwashed masses keeps showing

 Donald Trump's 1984 income tax returns had badges of fraud, as shown in my bestselling book The Making of Donald Trump. Under oath Trump's CPA/tax lawyer disavowed the 1984 return, saying his photocopied signature was on it, but he did not prepare the return, which had a Schedule C with $600,000+ of business expenses against $0 income. So who did prepare and file that return?

 Public records show Trump paid no income tax in 1978, 1979, 1984, 1992 and 1994. Explanations for this  are in Perfectly Legal, the 2004 Investigative Book of the Year. Trump's youthful tax-free living is also explained in my 1992 book Temples of Chance.

  Trump's 1978-2008 returns (audits are closed, Trump says) would allow those of us with deep knowledge of tax to establish a great deal about Trump's finances and wealth.

   Trump has testified his net worth  fluctuates based on his emotional state, as The Making of Donald Trump reports. By his own standard, Trump should release the 1978-2008 returns.

Keep it up, you snotty little dunce.  See what good it does you.

Obviously you don't know much about tax returns.  They provide a world of information.  If you're worried that someone might misconstrue them, then have your own experts tell us what our lying eyes are deceiving us about.  Otherwise, Mr. Bwana Hunter, isn't there a big game safari to attend while we Americans go on with the business of electing a president.

Eric, Can you send us the Cliff Notes on tax returns since we're not bright enough to understand them?  I guess Warren Buffett's tax attorney doesn't know that "no tax attorney in the world who would tell you to release your tax returns while you're under a standard routine audit."  The public would like to know about Don's sources of income (Russia, international bad guys ?)  Also since Don likes to brag about "all the charities I give to" we would like to see proof.  Finally even if the unwashed cannot understand the returns there are extremely, tremendous tax experts who will certainly examine and comment about your father's returns.  What are you afraid of?  You sound like the voice of someone who grew up with great privilege but is not willing to give back (woke up on third and thinks he hit a triple).

"Eric Trump said Wednesday it would be “foolish” for his father to release his tax returns and subject them to scrutiny by people who don’t know what they are looking at."

Perhaps Eric would also agree that it would be "foolish" for the American people to elect as President a man who does not know what he is talking about most of the time.

@Michael Moore Well said!!

I think the American people need to learn more about the Clinton Foundation and its ties to the State Department when Hillary was SoS.  There is a great deal we do not know about what went on behind the scenes, and how it affected foreign policy, and whether or not our vital national interests were impacted.  How can any voter rationalize or justify "pay for play" schemes that are being discovered every day now with more of those previously undisclosed emails from Clinton?  It is only going to get worse for her and her campaign because of this issue, and other topics, such as her poor health.  The Democrats can only hope that there is a potential distraction with the release of Trump's returns........................  

@Jack Craven  Stay on topic.  Its about Trump's tax returns.  Where does the Clinton Foundation appear in the article?  Where does Trump's tax returns fit into your post.  You are obviously auditioning as a Trump surrogate.

@Jack Craven When Congress takes "contributions" from well off people and Corporations what do you call that? We as a society have to get money out of politics completely!! If I donate $10. to my favorite politician

.. and someone else donates100K who do you think the politician is going to listen to?

Ignorance is bliss. You won't have to hear anything negative about Donald Trump.

BTW, you are aware that Donald Trump hasn't released any of the details of HIS family foundation? He's criticizing Hillary for things he won't disclose.

Of course it would be foolish.  Trump has things he wants to hide.

He could just release a few things such as his tax rate and how much he contributes to charity, without releasing his total return.  We all know why he won't so it will continue to be an issue.

He may not have his Eddie Munster hair style anymore but he is still an ugly rich brat.

LOL.

So Trump is concerned that a bunch of idiots are going to pour through every line of his tax returns and sensationalize every little thing. I wonder where he got that idea?

Meanwhile Hillary Clinton has release her tax returns for the last 30 years, her family foundation has every detail of their operation made public in their filings, she has had all of her emails when she was in office released to the public and has had her party's emails released to the public by Russian hackers.

Hillery Clinton will be the most transparent president in the history of the USA.

Yet another failure of the Trump campaign. Who didn't see this disaster coming?

More excuses. Get a team of forensic accountants to review them thoroughly and issue a joint report answering the questions most of us are concerned about. In order, for me:

1) How financially involved with the Russians is Trump? What would happen if they called their loans?

2) What other business involvements might pose conflicts of interest?

3) What is his tax rate?

4) How much has he give to charity over the past five or six years?

These are material concerns.

The media/pundit tax return push is a farcial issue selectively used to denigrate the opposition. Usually republicans. 

Trumps son is correct. Show me a list of numbers and I'll show you a list of misleading talking points. 

If Trump was a crook, he'd be in jail. Of course the media ignores Clinton who actually should be in jail.

Tell the media to shove it. 

I am more interested in medical records than tax records.  Health affects a President every day because it impacts energy, focus, and general outlook.  The tax stuff is more "gotcha" than anything else unless the manner of enrichment raises issues.  That is HRC's problem in fusing government salary and family foundation business in an arrangement where no completely effective firewall could ever have been constructed, and where it appears no effort was made to even try for a partial one.  

For Trump, it is prurient interest---is he worth as much as he claims?  Did he give a decent percentage to charity?  All in all, details that are more interesting than they are relevant.  There are so many more fundamentally important reasons to possibly not vote for Trump, but they won't appear on a balance sheet or tax return.  HRC's quick journey from rags to riches is relevant because what she did and how she got there goes to the heart of who she is and how she might act as President.

@edmund knaysi Medical records, yours included, should be kept private.

@Daniel Herkes @edmund knaysi There is a way to do it without providing the data from urine samples.  It has been done before while protecting confidentiality by using a panel of doctors to review current medical records and certify in general terms health status.  It would be nice to know if we are really voting for Kaine or Pence.

@Daniel Herkes @edmund knaysi Not if your asking voters to elect you as POTUS

Not releasing the tax return is harming the campaign, but the release would be a catastrophe at this point.  Trump is correct.

@Donald DeWitt @Daniel Herkes Agreed.  Big risk indeed.