This was not a tax filing, as you well know. It is the much more serious business of letting the voters know where your financing came from, as required by law.
“...It is the much more serious business of letting the voters know where your financing came from...”
Oh, I think most folks take taxes pretty dang serious and likely are *FAR* more concerned about them than a campaigning politician taking a personal loan, to himself, from his own personal assets. Seriously. Most understand he had zero to gain from concealing a personal loan from his own personal assets. If it had been a sneaky gift from the bank, you would have reason to shout “scandal”. But it wasn’t. It was a personal loan, to himself, from his own personal assets. How doe the bank influence him with his own assets? What say-so does the bank even *have* in that situation? Let me say that again in case it still hasn’t sunk in: It was a personal loan, to himself, from his own personal assets, that he repaid in full - not a sneaky quid-pro-quo gift from some nefarious cartel. No one cares, except mostly Trump supporters who apparently see Cruz as a threat. The same folks who (curiously) have zero problem with Trump taking bigger loans from the same banks and (arguably) weaseling out of repaying them.
“...as required by law...”
So you are saying - amended taxes “are not” somehow required by law? Huh? Complex regulations are the bane of folks interacting with govt — campaigning politicians included. Amended filings for *any* report to govt (taxes, manufacturing, education, elections, etc) are reasonable and expected to most anyone who has to deal with them — unless you are Trump apparently. Has Trump ever concealed taxes/income and had to file any amended reports? Has he “hidden” behind the skirts of some corporation to “shield” his activities from “the sunshine”? Do you see how silly the complaint becomes? I don’t even care about Trumps amended filings, which we can reasonably presume are voluminous and occur quarterly. But I also don’t care to hold him to a different standard than anyone else.