Donald Trump told ABC News that he doesn’t think anyone cares about seeing his tax returns, even as his own running mate prepares to release his own tax documents.
“As far as my taxes are concerned, the only one that cares is the press,” the GOP presidential hopeful told ABC News in an interview set to air Tuesday night. “I think people don’t care.”
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence has said his own tax returns will show he belongs to a “middle-class family.” The Indiana governor defended Trump’s decision to withhold his own returns, promising voters that he will “provide his after a routine audit is done.”
“When the audit is done, I’ll release them,” Trump said. “I don’t know when that’s gonna be, it could be soon, it could be not.”
The billionaire businessman has long said he will make his tax returns public as soon as the IRS has completed its audit, though his campaign has not specified what Trump will do if the audit is still underway in the last couple of weeks before Election Day.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, and her running mate, Tim Kaine, both released their 2015 tax filings last month. The Clinton campaign has pressured Trump to follow course, claiming his refusal to release his own returns suggests he may be hiding something.
According to a Monmouth University poll released last week, a combined 62 percent of voters believe it is very important or somewhat important that presidential candidates release their returns. Thirty-six percent of voters said it is not at all important to them.
