Trump Jr: My Dad’s ‘12,000-Page’ Tax Return Would Prompt Too Many Queries

Donald Trump, Jr. makes remarks at the 2016 Republican National Convention held at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP (RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey... Donald Trump, Jr. makes remarks at the 2016 Republican National Convention held at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP (RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York City) Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Donald Trump Jr. said that one reason his father has yet to release his tax returns, in a break from four decades of precedent for presidential candidates, was that the complicated documents would provoke too many questions.

“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.

The press and other Republican politicians have for months urged Trump to make his returns public in the interest of transparency. Hillary and Bill Clinton have made their own returns from 1977 onward available online.

The real estate mogul and his surrogates have insisted that they won’t release tax information while he is undergoing a routine IRS audit, though the IRS said there was no problem with him doing so.

In an interview on Fox News last week, however, Trump said he would release his returns “immediately” if Clinton publicized any remaining emails from the private server she used as secretary of state.

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  1. No shit Sherlock?

    I’m betting it’d bury him.

  2. How about just releasing the page detailing “Charitable Giving”? It would only take people a few seconds to read, and would only provoke a couple of questions.

  3. Donald Trump Jr. said that one reason his father has yet to receive his tax returns, in a break from four decades of precedent for presidential candidates, was that the complicated documents would provoke too many questions.

    Probably meant “release” or “reveal”. Probably not a good idea to post articles before 7:00 am, or at least before the first cup of coffee.

    ETA: I see it’s corrected now. Good for Ms Kirkland.

  4. Avatar for matx matx says:

    12,000 pages - for HO? He probably includes the tax returns of every scam charity and business partnership that includes his name along with all the W-2 and 990 copies for people who are legally working for these entities. It’s yuuuuuge!

  5. Keep on fucking that chicken, Jr.
    Can we get Qusay’s opinion, too?

    —Hillary was able to handle the release of 30,000 emails AND release her tax returns AND say more about her health than Trump.

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