# Will Trump release his tax returns?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-release-his-tax-returns/766286>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 18, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-release-his-tax-returns/766286 "2016-09-18T18:37:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-release-his-tax-returns/766286/21 "2016-09-19T16:10:53Z")

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> [@Corry\_El](#):
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> Any number of things could be looked back at as significant if someone wins by a nose. But the question wasn’t whether Trump would be better off with tax returns everyone agrees are ‘beautiful’ and he can proudly show, but whether he’s better off to release the ones he actually has. I don’t see how, and I don’t think he’s surrounded by dumb or tone deaf people who would think so.
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> Some posts are imagining a crescendo of media pressure which forces him to, but where is that going to come from now and why? Perhaps Clinton can revive it as a big story via some very clever/dramatic exchange in the debates, but more likely the issue stays on the margin.

Maybe, but I will count on Trump, associates or family to keep it as a supporting role in the play.

> **[Donald Trump Jr. Says Releasing Father's Tax Returns Would Raise Too Many...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tax-returns-questions_n_57da9599e4b08cb14093e7b2)**
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> Donald Trump Jr. Says Releasing Father's Tax Returns Would Raise Too Many Questions

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> Donald Trump Jr. Says Releasing Father’s Tax Returns Would Raise Too Many Questions
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> “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 an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published Wednesday.
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> Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump often cites an ongoing IRS audit as the reason he will not make his tax returns public ― but even he recently admitted he could do so “immediately” if he wanted. Moreover, there is nothing stopping the New York billionaire from releasing returns for previous years not currently under audit. His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has made her returns dating back to 1977 available online.

I would think that Trump is still in the “bad news still puts you on the news” mode, but eventually the ones on the fence will realize Trump is not to be trusted. As many more already did figure it out.

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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-release-his-tax-returns/766286/22 "2016-09-19T16:28:34Z")

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I really hope Clinton, during the debates, makes as many references as she can stating that Trump pays no taxes and hasn’t in decades. He’s a deadbeat. That resonates with everyone. If he isn’t going to release data to the contrary, then she should just assume that he pays no taxes and state it as a fact.

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