By Robert Field
As a veteran investor builder, we have our own slants on why Donald Trump is refusing to release his income tax returns .
We speculate as follows:
The obvious is he isn’t nearly as rich as he claims to be. He may even be in trouble. Isn’t it strange that a man who claims to be worth more than ten billion dollars has not donated much money, let alone a hundred million, to his own campaign?
And further along those lines, he may owe a lot of money to Russian sources.
Of course Trump, like all developers selling condominium apartments in New York and other major metropolitan regions, have been selling units at astronomical prices to Russian Oligarchs, who are eager to conceal their ill gotten gains and to invest in safe havens. Vladimir Putin could cut off that source of buyers with a few words.
Or, if Trump is in debt to Russian sources, could have those loans called.
No one in Russia crosses Putin. Might this also be the case with a President Trump?
