President Trump suggested Saturday that voters don’t care if he releases his tax returns and expressed confidence that his decision not to release them won’t harm him running for re-election in 2020.
“I won the 2016 Election partially based on no Tax Returns while I am under audit (which I still am), and the voters didn’t care,” Trump said in a Twitter post. “Now the Radical Left Democrats want to again relitigate this matter. Make it a part of the 2020 Election!”
I won the 2016 Election partially based on no Tax Returns while I am under audit (which I still am), and the voters didn’t care. Now the Radical Left Democrats want to again relitigate this matter. Make it a part of the 2020 Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2019
Trump refused to release his tax returns during the 2016 election, as every other presidential nominee had done before him. He has not relented as president, to the anger of Democrats.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., subpoenaed the Treasury Department and the IRS on Friday to provide six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns.
Other House committees have already subpoenaed Trump’s banks and accountant to obtain his financial records. The president is challenging the merits of those subpoenas in court, arguing that Congress is going past its constitutional power to obtain his financial information.
The conflict is likely to be resolved in court.
