12/30/2022
The returns, which include redactions of some personal sensitive information such as Social Security and bank account numbers, are from 2015 to 2020.
Their release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent with regard to the loss of privacy protections.
Trump had refused to release his returns when he ran for president and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House.
But the Supreme Court ruled last month that he had to turn them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
Trump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud.
Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing.
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