What makes you think he is trying to hide anything ?
It's a fact everybody knows about.
Trump has been hiding and lying about his tax returns since his first day campaigning. The real questions are "What is Trump hiding? Why is Trump hiding it?"
If there was something fishy, or illegal, the IRS would have dealt with it before now.
It isn't illegal to be in hock up to your eyeballs to hostile foreign powers like Russian oligarchs. But it does call into question your judgement when it comes to foreign policy or military endeavors. Like tariffs and reigniting conflicts with Iran. If the USA cannot be trusted to make peace or trade deals that's a big win for Putin's Russian ambitions.
And if nobody in America can figure out what Trump's real motivation is, that's another huge problem for the USA.
There is no law that says candidates should release their tax information, though there should be.
No there isn't. And I agree that basic financial transparency of people running for high office should be required, if only by the electorate.
More than just tax returns, the modern global world of finance and investment and corruption means that a lot more information than tax returns should be required by competent voters before a candidate gets any support.
Because the dems have not yet come up with an impeachable offense, they have been trying to since the inauguration, Why should he help them ? It is just one fishing expedition after another, they remind me of the gang that couldn´t shoot straight, jerry boom boom nadler, adam the lemur schiff, and nancy the boss pelosi haven´t been able to pull it off yet, year after year after year.
They legislate with the same skill.
Suppose that Trump's opponent, Godzillary, could have quashed her record. Kept her record as first lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and all the various investigations, secret. She could describe them as she chose(however dishonestly) and pay people to keep the truth hidden.
The way Trump has kept his track record proprietary. He can lie all he wants. And he has said.
I'll release my tax returns before the election.
I'll release my tax returns after the audit ends.
I'll release my tax returns after Obama proves he was born in the USA.
Then, the most important and profound lie. "Nobody cares about my tax returns".
Trump has lied about his taxes since the first day of his campaign. And mountains of other stuff, as well.
And the only credentials for his run for POTUS was his business acumen. That's one big thing that makes him different from Kasich or Sanders or Clinton or Cruz. Those people all had public records. Trump didn't.
His only credentials were his business acumen, unless you want to include reality TV, banging porno stars, failing at University and casino building, and that sort of thing. Of all the candidates, his financial records were the most important. And things might be perceived very differently if he'd been honest from the beginning, "I won't release any relevant information such as my tax returns." But instead, he consistently lied about it, right up to the election.
You were in law enforcement.
Suppose someone died under very suspicious circumstances. Of the people with possible reasons to kill the victim, most were reasonably cooperative and truthful. One consistently lied about everything from their relationship with the deceased to their whereabouts shortly before the death, and publicly bragged about being smarter than the police. Who would you be most suspicious of and focus your investigation on?
Tom