Trump has also been in the news for suing a town in Westchester County in order to reduce the property taxes on his golf course there. His court filing says Trump National Golf Club is worth $1.4 million, but he cited it as worth $50 million in the financial disclosures he released at the start of his presidential bid, the Guardian noted.
Will the stories be turned into attack ads?
Barasky, of the pro-Clinton super-PAC, said Trump pretending to be his own publicist was “certainly weird,” but it wasn’t likely to change voters minds. Similary, Barasky distanced himself from the Times story, saying “we’re not concerned with going into his personal life.”
Instead, Barasky was eager to talk about Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. The billionaire real-estate developer and TV personality has promised to release the documents, which has become pro forma for presidential nominees the past four decades, after an audit. But in an interview on ABC on Friday, Trump bristled, saying his tax rate was “none of your business.”
Democrats view Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns as a rich area to target. They believe it shows he has issues with transparency and raises questions about his honesty, since he has promised to release the forms in the past. Together, those could be used to chip away at the image he’s built as a successful businessman.
“What is Donald hiding?” Clinton’s campaign asked in a 69-second Web video it released on Saturday.