i am surprised this hasn’t gone viral — trump was interviewed on July 24 by chuck todd.
trump actually told todd that romney releasing his tax returns was the reason he lost the election! (from nbc MTP actual transcript):
Meet the Press - July 24, 2016
[excerpt]
CHUCK TODD:
Rebuked, done. Okay. Tax returns. A lot of conspiracy theories are being out there about why-- what's in your tax returns. You would get rid of all these conspiracy theories tomorrow--
DONALD TRUMP:
Let me tell you--
CHUCK TODD:
Probably make people look silly--
DONALD TRUMP:
Let me tell you. Let me give you a little lesson on tax returns. First of all, you don't learn very much from a tax return. I put in to the federal elections group 100 and some-odd pages of my financials. It showed, as you know, that I'm much wealthier than anybody even understood, okay? Tremendous cash, tremendous assets, tremendous all that stuff. Okay, that's it. I'm going through a routine audit. Just a routine audit, and I've had it for I think 14 years, 13 years--
CHUCK TODD:
Why?
DONALD TRUMP:
Every year they audit me. It's routine government. I would never give my tax returns until the audit's finished. But remember this: Mitt Romney, four years ago, was under tremendous pressure to give his tax returns. And he held it and held it and held it, and he fought it, and he, you know, he didn't do too well, okay? But he didn't do anything wrong on his taxes. When he gave his tax returns, people forget, not now. He gave them in September, before the election--
CHUCK TODD:
So you still might release them—
then trump said the obvious…
DONALD TRUMP:
No, wait a minute, wait a minute. When he did, and his tax returns are a tiny peanut compared to mine, they went through his tax returns. And they found one little sentence, another little-- there was nothing wrong. And they made him look bad. In fact I think he lost his election because of that. [emphasis mine]
CHUCK TODD:
Because of the tax returns?
DONALD TRUMP:
I think he lost. And I'll tell you why: He didn't do anything wrong. Mitt Romney did nothing wrong. But they would take out of, his weren't too big. Have you ever seen mine with the picture, they're like this high? [emphasis mine]
CHUCK TODD:
I have seen that picture, yes.
DONALD TRUMP:
Okay, so they took his tax return and they found a couple of little things. Nothing wrong, just standard. And they made him look very bad, very unfair. [emphasis mine] But with all that said, I'd love to give them, but I'm under audit. When the audit's finished I'll give them.
trump admits that he is concerned his tax returns will cost him the election! this raises the question again, what is he hiding!
for the full interview, go here — the tax discussion starts 18:31 seconds into the interview: Meet The Press - July 24, 2016 Todd/Trump interview
ask the media to demand trump release his tax returns NOW!