Donald Trump Saturday morning pushed back on the IRS' assertion that he can release his tax returns even while they're being audited, saying on television and through Twitter that "no lawyer would ever allow you to release a tax return while you are being audited."
"I have been audited many years," the GOP front-runner told Fox News'
"Fox & Friends Saturday" program. "It's very unfair. The IRS always audits me. Eventually I settle it out and it's very fine. But it's very unfair to me."
Trump also on Saturday
addressed the issue on Twitter, saying that no "sane person" would release a tax return under such circumstances::
"You can ask why they audit me all the time because I have friends that are very rich, they don't even know what I'm talking about," Trump told Fox. "They have never been audited. How come I'm audited virtually every year? When you are under audit , until the audit is done you don't release your returns because you are releasing something who knows. You want to get them exactly perfect. You don't want to release it."
Further, he said that no tax lawyer would allow that to happen, and denied former GOP nominee Mitt Romney's assertion that there must be a "bombshell" in the tax returns or they'd be released.
"Mitt Romney was a failed candidate, a terrible candidate," said Trump. "He wants to get back into the cycle a little bit I guess. It has nothing to do. By the way, nobody released financials like I did. Almost 100 pages long. It showed the company is worth over $10 billion."
Friday, the
IRS said in a statement that "nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information," and without mentioning Trump by name disagreed with his assertions that he is often audited because he is a
"strong Christian." The front-runner says his returns have been audited every year for more than a decade.
Trump on Saturday, though,
questioned why he is "unfairly" audited every year:
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