Trump adviser Roger Stone calls on him to release tax records
Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone said Monday that the GOP presidential nominee should release his tax returns.
In an interview on 610 WIOD Miami radio’s Fernand Amandi Show, Stone was asked if Trump is making a mistake by not releasing his returns.
“Yes, I think he should release his tax returns immediately,” Stone said in the interview, first reported by Buzzfeed.
His comment came after Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, reversed her position that Trump should release his tax returns.
In April, Conway told CNN that she’d like see Trump’s returns become “transparent,” but in multiple interviews on Sunday, she said he shouldn’t while they remain under audit.
“So now that I’m on the inside, I know something I didn’t know then. He’s under audit. He’s said completely, when audit is completed, he will release,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Trump made it clear several months before Conway’s interview with CNN in April that his returns are under audit and that he wouldn’t release them until it is completed.
The audit on Trump’s returns, however, from 2002 to 2008 is complete, and Conway was asked about releasing those returns.
“This entire tax return debate is somewhat confounding to me, in the following sense: I don’t think that it creates one job, gets one more individual who does not have health insurance covered by health insurance, particularly under the disaster that has been Obamacare with these private insurers pulling out our exchanges now and reporting billions of dollars of losses,” she told CNN.
