The eldest son of Donald Trump defended his father’s decision not to release his tax returns, and said that move would just be a distraction from the campaign.
“Because he’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from (his father’s) main message,” Donald Trump Jr. told Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editors and reporters on Wednesday.
The Republican presidential nominee has said he refuses to release his tax returns because they are still under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
This week, Vice News announced it is suing the IRS for audits of Trump’s tax returns.
Trump has faced harsh backlash for the failure to release his returns. Every major party candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972 has made their tax returns public before election day.
