Huckabee: Romney trying to ‘sink’ Trump over taxes

An interview this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America became contentious as George Stephanopoulos pressed Donald Trump over his refusal to release his tax returns. Trump again said Friday he plans to release his income tax returns – but only when the Internal Revenue Service has finished examining them.

During Friday’s interview, Stephanopoulos told Trump that voters “have a right” to see his returns before they make a decision on who they will cast a ballot for.

For that matter, given how eager Trump is to slash rates for the wealthiest of the wealthy – people like Trump himself – it arguably is our “business” just how big a tax break the Republican candidate intends to give himself.

Every presidential nominee since 1976 has released tax returns ahead of the election. “He’s got zero interest that night”, said the man known as Miller, apparently meaning they did not have sex.

“I put in financials – 100 pages worth of financials – that show that I built a company that’s worth more than $10 billion”, he told ABC. Clinton said at a campaign event Wednesday. “What else is he hiding in those tax returns?” she said. Romney, who released his own returns only under pressure four years ago, speculated that there’s a “bombshell” in Trump’s tax submissions.

The GOP’s 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who opposes Trump, has repeatedly badgered the NY businessman to release his returns, even floating the idea that Trump needs to prove he’s not involved in organized crime, a rumor that Trump has been subject to in the past.

“I don’t have Swiss bank accounts”. Sanders released his 2014 return in April, while former first lady Clinton posted the past eight years of her and her husband’s tax returns on her website in August.

The public can learn a lot from returns, Stephanopoulos said. “So you’ve got to ask yourself, why doesn’t he want to release them?” The IRS has made it very clear an audit is not a bar to public release. In 2011, Trump suggested that he might run for president someday and if he did, he would release his tax returns when Barack Obama released his birth certificate.

“I think 40 years of tradition carries real moral and ethical weight”, Mr Thorndike said. “Further, he could release returns for the years immediately prior to the years under audit”, Romney wrote. In 1973 Richard Nixon released tax return whilst it was still being audited. “You’ll see it when it’s released”.

Trump steadfastly insisted he would not release his returns until the audit was over. Clinton this week began calling on Trump to do the same.

The chairman of the Republican Party says Donald Trump has been trying hard to be presidential and doing that well lately. She said I happen to agree with you.