Friday’s release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from his four years in the White House and two years prior is an important and long overdue public service.
It also would have been a warning shot to any future presidents who may want to keep their tax returns private.
), chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, asked the agency for information related to Trump’s tax returns.
Ultimately, though, it’s on House Democrats that the Trump tax documents release on Friday were so limited.
So they couched their court case as looking into the effectiveness of mandatory IRS audits of tax returns of all sitting presidents.