And you had a forty-year long record, much of it on video of you being an arrogant, sexist, predatory, sociopath euphemism, and a long history of lying and wronging thousands of people.

Why, you would be like Disneyland or a candy store for an oppo research team.  You could just throw darts and you couldn't miss.

1. he's not big enough to pull an Enron/Arthur Anderson, so no public accounting firm would put up with his shenanigans, all required disclosures would be made in the footnotes. this would include any items where the tax treatment adopted by the company has a high probability of a proposed change, if audited by the IRS.

2. the mandatory "going concern" statement would give anyone reading it (assuming they know how to read audited financials, not always a valid assumption with a bank.) a heads-up that all or a material part of his little empire was about to go belly up. this might give them some chance to recover something, as opposed to having to eat the whole thing, debt wise.

They look at an earlier time when party bosses made the call and see a certain wisdom. Why not have folks obsessed with government and politics make the pick? They'll have a better sense of the issues. They can know the candidates personally, get a better understanding of their smarts and honesty. That's what got us Lincoln and FDR. It's voters who picked Trump and Clinton.