Donald Trump will not release any tax returns or business connections unless required...

[kentuck]

...by legal force.

Or if it is to his personal benefit to do so.

Otherwise, he doesn't give a damn.

Just as when he paid off the $25 million dollar lawsuit for defrauding people with his Trump University. It was not in his interest to fight it out in court. He would have lost the case. So, in his own personal interest, he decided to settle for $25 million dollars.

Still, he made money off the scam. It is estimated he made nearly $100 million dollars off all the "students" at his University. He still came out far ahead.

He will not turn over his tax returns unless he is forced to do so.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That is absolutely correct. If he had nothing to hide

he'd have released the returns a long time ago, just to try to make the Dems look foolish if for no other reason. Obviously he does have something to hide. Whatever his relationship is with Russia, it almost certainly involves shady financial transactions - money laundering and tax evasion, most likely. What's not in his tax returns would probably be as revealing as what's in them.

[malaise]

2. The bigger question is how does someone who has to settle a fraud case become Presidenr

of the United States? How does someone who has scammed so may people become President? It makes no sense - and then folks are shocked that he's a pathological LIAR

[kentuck]

3. Because the Republican Party is an accessory to the crime.

And the media are accessories to the Republican Party.

[malaise]

4. +1,000

That said there should be processes in place to prevent this from ever happening again.