I have no interest in seeing Trump's tax returns...

[brooklynite]

Absent a criminal violation (which "the public" isn't going to find if the IRS hasn't) there is nothing about his sources of income, his deductions, his donations to charity, his net worth, etc, that is going to tell me something about him that I didn't already know.

The bottom line is that the average voter doesn't care. His refusal to make tax returns available (which is only something done in the last 40 years or so) was essentially litigated in the 2016 Election.

[Jarqui]

1. I do

It will further expose him to public for what he is

[Meadowoak]

2. +1

[rso]

4. Trump

It also proves that Trump was outright lying when he said he was being audited.

[brooklynite]

7. Do you honestly think the average voter's opinion will be changed?

[sprinkleeninow]

13. Yah never know. n/t

[Jarqui]

27. Yes - some

They'll relate to him lying on his tax returns vs themselves being honest about it for example
Or they'll be turned off by the evidence that he lied about being audited

It's like a wedge issue with his base - each one of these things peel a few more folks away to erode his support.

I do realize he has some deadheads who will remain blind to all of this.
But things like this will get some of his supporters.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

38. What's this about deadheads?

[rso]

3. Trump

Many of the people he did business with will comb through to see if/how they may have been ripped off by Trump. For example, a person/Company that did business with him would be able to counter Trump’s official filing declaring a loss knowing that it was a false declaration.

[Jarqui]

5. The accountants in the media will go nuts with this.

Incredible scrutiny
And folks will start to join more dots ...

[mobeau69]

11. Date of start of first audit same as day Neal requested his returns.

And just who was Sec of Treasury/IRS at the time? Munchkin of course.

[former9thward]

28. No they won't.

That information is not in a tax return.

[NoRethugFriends]

6. How about the fact that the asshole is trying to run for president again?

[Cha]

8. Solid Point. nt

[brooklynite]

9. Doubt it will have any influence...

People who support him won't have their minds changed.

People who oppose him won't have their minds changed.

Low-engagement voters in the middle won't care about this as opposed to the political issues which affect them.

Bottom line, everyone has a baked in opinion of Trump's character.

[LiberalFighter]

22. People who are looking for a reason to stop supporting him.

Peeling his supporters away by any means. Death, prison, etc.

[Jarqui]

10. Also, they can provide evidence for things like fraud

He signed a loan application saying one thing.
Days later, he signs a tax return saying something else.

Maybe he lied to the courts.
Maybe he lied on his disclosures to assume office.

He's a chronic liar.
Who is he going to blame for his bogus tax returns?
Even MAGAts know who signs their tax returns.

Stuff like this can help a cascade of crap to land on him.

[mobeau69]

17. I want to see his charitable donations.

Did he donate the equivalent of his presidential salary like he promised?

[former9thward]

29. He announced who he was giving the money to every quarter.

It was always reported. Wouldn't some reporter have been able to go to the agency or group and ask them "Did you get the money". I thinking they could.

[republianmushroom]

12. neither do I. I just want to see the bastard in prison.

[onetexan]

14. Your statement is a little shortsighted. The country needs to know who

As in which foreign governments - the Con's beholden to. This is a matter of national security.

[uppityperson]

18. Exactly. Thank you

[NoRethugFriends]

31. Yup

[diva77]

42. +1,000,000 This!!!!!!

[Dorian Gray]

15. He cares

and if this pops the bubble of his wealth even further, it'll deflate the grip he has over everybody.

[SlimJimmy]

16. I'm with the OP.

It's a big nothing more or less.

[JohnSJ]

19. Then don't look at them

[FrankBooth]

20. I want to see them

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And to just dismiss it away as 'voters won't care' is absurd...some absolutely will, especially if it chips away at the myth he's built around himself, and particularly if he's revealed as a financial charlatan. And, if as you say, voters have already made up their minds about him, how does it hurt? It doesn't. Pile on this fucker from every angle and with everything you've got until he dies, is in jail, or withdraws from public life. He has squandered any semblance of courtesy he may have once deserved.

[Hortensis]

21. :) So what? They will provide some INFORMATION to a select population

whose work requires all the information they can obtain about tRump and other government figures.

[dpibel]

23. How confident are you about the IRS?

Only one Trump tax return as president got mandatory IRS audit, report says

If the returns haven't been audited, how are you so sure that the IRS would have found whatever there might be to find?

[inthewind21]

32. I was wondering

The same thing. And also wondering why anyone would have that much faith in the IRS.

[Initech]

24. How about Clarence Thomas' tax returns?

I’d be curious to know who’s in his loop.

[BannonsLiver]

25. Thanks for the update.

I was just sitting here wondering what you thought about his taxes.

[dpibel]

36. You too?

It was actually on my Christmas list.

[diva77]

43. lol

[Whiskeytide]

26. I think they will expose his claims to have been a billionaire ...

… as outright bullshit. I think he was barely a millionaire before he ran for office. He licensed his name for a living.

His cult worships him partly - perhaps even mostly - because he held himself out a a successful, obscenely wealthy dick who did and said whatever he wanted. They wanted to be like that too. So I do think that if that is exposed as part of his con, it’ll peel off some support.

[former9thward]

30. A tax return does not report wealth.

It reports yearly income. A very wealthy person with little income will not necessarily show their wealth on their return.

[inthewind21]

34. Maybe not

But a tax returned compared with the required financial disclosures of elected officials could pose to be quite interesting.

[MichMan]

41. That is why every single federal, state & local elected official needs to make tax returns public

I don't care if it is a President, Senator, Representative, Governor, State legislator or the local city council or road commissioner.

All of them need to be able to be viewed on line by any interested voter

[inthewind21]

35. Yes

And yearly income can come in may different forms. Such as stocks, interest accounts, property transactions etc. There are many many things that are taxed that aren't typical "income".

[Demsrule86]

33. I have interest and I think it will reveal much about Trump.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. Crazy talk? I definitely want to download it all!!!

[diva77]

39. Wasn't he supposed to put all of his businesses into a blind trust? Whether or not that's true,

he ran everything for his benefit -- such as forcing secret service to book themselves at top dollar in his resorts, etc. His taxes are important historically looking forward so that hopefully we can avoid this abomination in the future. Everything doesn't exist for the purpose of swaying voters. Besides, this info. may influence people in the long term if not the short term.

[Takket]

40. his "blind trust" was his kids running the company

which is like me having my wife log into the website to pay the electric bill while i stand over her shoulder and tell her what to do.

"blind" LOL Not even close