Washington – White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway says President Donald Trump will not release his tax returns, appearing to shut the door on a decades-long tradition of transparency.
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Every president since 1976 has released their returns. During the campaign, Trump refused to make his filings public, saying they were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and saying he’d release them after that review is complete.
Conway was asked Sunday about a petition on the White House website signed by more than 200,000 people calling for Trump to release his returns.
Conway told ABC’s “This Week”: “The White House response is that he’s not going to release his tax returns.”
She added: “We litigated this all through the election. People didn’t care.”
Polls show a majority of Americans want him to release the returns.
Sorry, AP. If it’s not legally mandated, which it’s not, the President is not obligated to release them.
President Trump said he would release them. When you consider all the difficult things President Trump has promised to do, it is remarkable he is not doing one of the easiest things. He is behaving as if he has something to hide.
Is he going to break his promise to the American people because he has something to hide. It appears that he has a problem with honesty .