Don’t Embarrass Trump Over Tax Records Release—Charge Him Instead

My criticisms of Donald Trump, as a person and as a president, are too numerous to mention. Nonetheless, I’m struggling to find a justification for the public release of his tax returns with the information currently available. If there’s evidence of a crime, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; otherwise, releasing them only results in political embarrassment. If that had any effect, he’d have dissolved into a cloud of dust years ago.

The release, however, brings some temporary satiation to the injustice inherent every time he claimed he would soon release them. It helps ...