Running for president is the longest, toughest job interview in the world. That’s why all serious candidates release information about their health, through notes from their physicians, and about their finances, through releasing their tax returns.
When I ran for president in 2004, I released my tax returns for the public to see. So did John Kerry, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Hillary Clinton has released an astonishing 33 years of her tax returns, the last eight of which are all available on her website.
In fact, since 1976, every major party’s nominee has released his or her tax returns, because that’s what the American people expect of their prospective leaders.
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump thinks the rules don’t apply to him. He vacillates between stalling the release of his tax returns and rejecting their release outright. His most common excuse is that he cannot release the returns because he’s in the midst of an audit.
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