In regards to his tax records, I’m willing to bet it’s because of the reception it will receive.
99% of Americans don’t have the slightest clue of how wealth works. They don’t understand income versus worth, they don’t understand high finance at all.
People think he walks around with a 10 billion dollar ATM card.
The truth is that Ivana fleeced him at the divorce. He pays her a dollar per year, but Ivana owns MUCH of the Trump enterprise.
If people saw how his tax records looked, they wouldn’t know what to think. The truth is that he may claim $10 per year income. Or he may put much of his company losses into his own books. Or he may have listed a dog as head of security. Or he may have companies moved into his family’s name to avoid scrutiny.
All of these things are commonplace with wealth. Trump doesn’t have 10 billion sitting in a room like Scrooge McDuck and that will confuse and shock most Americans. Americans who already have Jon Stewart telling them he’s scamming the system by being bankrupt 6 times when in fact that is how you’re SUPPOSED to operate when you or your business loses.
That’s why Bankrupcy exists !
I wouldn’t release my taxes either. But he did do brilliance by offering to release them when she (found) her 33,000 missing emails. That was great.
Pure speculation