On Trump’s taxes

Information recently made available about Donald Trump’s taxes shows him as the head of a weak and weakening business “empire,” one continuing to deteriorate under the weight of years of throwing good money after bad. One example — he invested income from “The Apprentice” to buy golf courses, borrowed money to support the purchases and invested even more money to improve them, all the while suffering annual operating losses.

What this means for him personally is of little more than prurient interest to this writer. But for Mr. Trump, with his penchant for secrecy, an ego that may suffer from the disclosure of his longstanding business ineptitude, added to the fact that he may not have the financial resources to pay the federal government the amounts in dispute, the available and yet to come disclosures may document fatal blows.

He may be the poster child for overplaying one’s hand. Assuming that Mr. Trump undertook the run for the presidency as a brand-building exercise — largely using other peoples’ money — his inability to know when to fold ’em seems now to be accruing against his interests. It may be that this man, who always has to walk away the winner, should not have worked so hard to win here.

And add that to the array of criminal actions that stand to be unleashed as soon as he loses the protection of the presidency.

Are these perhaps the reasons for his “rigged election” mantra? Roy Fuchs Trumbull