I never said Trump was hiding anything. But right now he has a choice between releasing his tax returns and getting the Left to shut up forever about them or dragging his feet while they convince the fence sitters that he’s behaving in a suspicious manner.
I’ll take pragmatism over principle any day of the week.
As a small-time real estate investor, I can tell you that there are hundreds of perfectly legal deductions which would sound very bad to anyone not in the business. DJT is a big-time real estate operator and has thousands more of these things.*
The Dems would have a field day leaking perfectly legitimate things and saying he "cheated" on his taxes.
* Just as a "for instance". DW and I show a tax loss on our buildings, even though they throw off a substantial amount of spendable cash. The Dems would claim that DJT is a terrible businessman, unable to make money on any of his investments, even though they might be generating hundreds of millions in spendable cash.
The explanation for why this is the case is long, boring and going to put 99% of all voters to sleep.