Trump will release tax details after audit is complete: aide

Donald Trump will release his tax details only after its audit is completed, his aide said today even as a top Republican leader claimed that it was unlikely to impact the party's presumptive nominee's electoral prospects.
"(Trump) has said he will release his tax returns, never has changed his position. What he has said is, he's under audit now. And once the audit is completed, he will release the taxes," Paul Manafort, a top advisor to the real estate tycoon told CNN.
Manafort said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit is going on last eight year's worth of tax returns.

"And anything beyond eight years is not going to be reflective of anything other than interest on the part of the media," he said.
During the interview Manafort was asked: "You know Nixon released his returns while under audit. And Donald Trump released his returns to a gaming commission, I believe, while under audit when he was trying to get a casino in New Jersey."
Manafort replied that this was an issue "the media is interested in. It's not an issue that Middle America is interested in, frankly. Donald Trump has been very clear. He will release it.

"He will comply when the audit is done. You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit."

Last week, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton took a jibe at Trump for not releasing his tax returns, a break from the decades-long precedent in the race to the White House.
But in an interview to Fox News, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said he was not sure whether Americans actually care whether Trump releases his taxes or not.
"And that's a question for Donald Trump and he's either going to benefit or suffer from the decisions that he makes on that particular issue," he said.
"But whether this issue is going to apply to Donald Trump in a negative way or not I'm not sure of. But so far, most things have not because he represents something far different than these particular individual issues," he said.

"It's a bigger question, which is who is going to blow up the system? Who is going to get the change that people want done? People are angry and they're angry and they want something done and they view Donald Trump as the person to do it. That's what this election is coming down to," Priebus said.