http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/290555-trumps-pushback-on-tax-return-release-reveal-true
we all have missed why it is rational for Trump to incur the heavy political cost of not publishing his tax returns. Donald Trump will not publish his tax returns because he does not expect to be President...
Trump’s tax return strategy is directed at a future in which he is not President, but is an even richer self-promoter...[Trump] remains entirely focused on the Trump brand and business. Electoral success is at most a distraction from that.
[Because why else would he take the political hit of not releasing his returns, is this guy's point. It's an interesting, creative theory but is inconsistent with certain other facts. Trump is working awfully hard to become president, too hard for a guy who really doesn't "expect" to be elected. Trump's candidacy has hurt his business interests, he lost the PGA at Doral, lost Univision, I saw an article that had it that business at Trump properties is off 17% since he began his run, and the Trump "brand?" Hoo-doggie. The Trump name is Mudd now. If he loses the election, I think he loses it all. Nobody is going to want to touch the Trump "brand." I think he'll eventually have to declare bankruptcy. I really think he's going to flee overseas to avoid the IRS-like Boris Johnson did. No: Trump really wants to be president. That would make him richer. Only that. If he loses, he's done. No, I think Mitt Romney was correct, there is, or are, multiple devastating bombshells in Trump's taxes that would kill any chance of becoming president and hence becoming richer.]
we all have missed why it is rational for Trump to incur the heavy political cost of not publishing his tax returns. Donald Trump will not publish his tax returns because he does not expect to be President...
Trump’s tax return strategy is directed at a future in which he is not President, but is an even richer self-promoter...[Trump] remains entirely focused on the Trump brand and business. Electoral success is at most a distraction from that.
[Because why else would he take the political hit of not releasing his returns, is this guy's point. It's an interesting, creative theory but is inconsistent with certain other facts. Trump is working awfully hard to become president, too hard for a guy who really doesn't "expect" to be elected. Trump's candidacy has hurt his business interests, he lost the PGA at Doral, lost Univision, I saw an article that had it that business at Trump properties is off 17% since he began his run, and the Trump "brand?" Hoo-doggie. The Trump name is Mudd now. If he loses the election, I think he loses it all. Nobody is going to want to touch the Trump "brand." I think he'll eventually have to declare bankruptcy. I really think he's going to flee overseas to avoid the IRS-like Boris Johnson did. No: Trump really wants to be president. That would make him richer. Only that. If he loses, he's done. No, I think Mitt Romney was correct, there is, or are, multiple devastating bombshells in Trump's taxes that would kill any chance of becoming president and hence becoming richer.]
