Senate Select Intelligence Committee member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wants to obtain and review all of the finances of President Trump, including Trump’s tax returns, by using the power of the panel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election
Wyden, who is also the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, said he’ll use the powers of that committee as well to look into Trump’s finances as deeply as possible.
“I and other members of the finance committee have already urged that the committee exercise its authority to obtain and review Donald Trump’s tax returns,” Wyden said. “This review ought to include the Trump organization and its partnerships.”
It was a sharply partisan moment for the senate panel, which has repeatedly said they have a responsibility to conduct as bipartisan an investigation as possible. Earlier in the hearing, Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said the hearing was, “not about relitigating last fall’s election.”
“I believe the committee needs to lift the fog of secrecy about what really happened (to) our democracy,” Wyden said.
Pressing even further, Wyden said the senate investigation should look into Trump businesses for any violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, “which ensures that investors are not paying bribes overseas,” adding that “Information about Donald Trump’s finances, his family, and his associates, may lead to Russia.”
