Romney’s no hypocrite on Trump’s taxes

Published April 8, 2019 9:00pm ET



With Russia collusion claims all but off the table as an impeachable offense against President Trump, Democrats have moved on to the next shiny thing. Even then, it’s nothing new. They have begun to chase his ever-elusive tax returns.

In seeking the highest office of the free world, Trump ought to have released his tax returns in 2016, and he ought to do so again in 2020. No one buys his equivocation over auditing, and in a vacuum and an election against someone who’s not Hillary Clinton, voters by default may have supremely cared whether a megalomaniac billionaire spent decades gaming the American tax code.

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