Trump’s Tax Returns Just Got More Interesting
Another day, another reason voters must see the president’s financial records.
President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump has famously refused to follow 40-plus years of presidential tradition and release his tax returns. Before him, the last major-party nominee not to release returns was Gerald Ford. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say Trump’s are much more interesting.
The very wealthy president is dogged by questions about his net worth, sources of income, ties to Russia and other foreign capital sources, and whether his office has enriched him, to name a few mysteries. Tax returns may not resolve all these, but they’d sure help. Today we’ve got yet another reason to want to see them: ProPublica reported that Trump inflated the profitability of properties when he needed a loan but minimized those numbers when it was time to pay taxes.