I’ve Seen Trump’s Tax Returns. Now You Can, Too: Timothy O’Brien (Correct)

Sometime soon — possibly within the next few days — a congressional committee led by Democrats will begin doling out former President Donald Trump’s income tax returns to the public. The disclosure marks the end of a bitter, multi-year battle to keep the returns under wraps. It all would have been unnecessary if Trump had done what every president since Gerald Ford had done: release them voluntarily.

Trump’s predecessors released theirs to help promote bi-partisan transparency and good government in the post-Watergate era. He had no interest in any of that when he landed in the White House, and relied ...