‘We will take all necessary steps, including litigation, if necessary, to obtain them.’ House Democrats are preparing to develop a legal case to force…
‘We will take all necessary steps, including litigation, if necessary, to obtain them.’
House Democrats are preparing to develop a legal case to force Donald Trump to release his tax returns, saying they will take “all necessary steps” to obtain them, The Hill is reporting.
It’s been a tradition since the Nixon administration, says CNN, for presidential candidates to release their tax returns at some point during the campaign season. Note however that there is not now, nor has there ever been, any law that requires them to do so. Nevertheless, all presidential candidates since then have released their returns, except Trump.
During the campaign, Trump vowed that he would not release his tax returns while he was under audit by the IRS, even though no IRS rule specifically prohibits someone who is under audit from publicly releasing their returns. Once he was elected and inaugurated, he said through spokesperson Kellyanne Conway that the American people “don’t care.
