Donald Trump made what his campaign billed as two major disclosures on Wednesday. First, an attorney provided a timeline of his Slovenia-born wife’s immigration status. Then, amid questions about his health during a television interview, Trump pulled some medical test results out of his blazer pocket.
Yet despite these high-profile gestures, Trump remains the least transparent major presidential nominee in modern history. He is the first since 1976 to refuse to release his tax returns. He has declined to provide documentation of the “tens of millions” of dollars he claims to have donated to charity. He has yet to release a comprehensive accounting of his health. And, while Wednesday’s letter about Melania Trump’s immigration from her home country offers a few new details, there is no documentation to back up the claims.
At the same time, Trump and his aides are criticizing rival Hillary Clinton as secretive and demanding more information from her about her emails and health.
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, played down Trump’s need to release health records on MSNBC on Tuesday: “I don’t know why we need such extensive medical reporting when we all have a right to privacy.”
