Rachel Maddow

[Bengalzona]

I'm told that the need to review Trump's taxes has little to do with discovering that he hasn't paid enough or that he has done something illegal in filing them. Certainly some of his critics would love to find some 'dirt' on him. But I think most of us wouldn't expect to find a large corporation risking so much just to shave a little on taxes. Most boards and stockholders wouldn't put up with that type of foolishness.

Rather it is about what foreign countries his companies have been having dealings with and the level of those dealings (most particularly, Russia). Unfortunately for Maddow, the abbreviated copy of Trump's 2005 return did not have any of that information in it.

If the investigation into Russia's election fiddling leads back to Trump and his campaign, Congress may end up subpoenaing his taxes anyway.