(WASHINGTON) A US congressional committee released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, after a long legal battle.
Donald Trump, who has embarked on a new race for the White House for the year 2024, has not made his tax returns public, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, which has raised many questions about their content.
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee voted in favor of publishing the billionaire’s tax statements for six years between 2015 and 2020.
This group of elected officials has been demanding for three years what documents the billionaire sends to the IRS between these years, which he refused. The Supreme Court finally ruled in their favor at the end of November.
Donald Trump strongly condemned this decision in a CBS press release on Friday, asserting that these remarks “once again just show my success.”
Their publication is an additional setback for the former tenant of the White House, who is already the subject of countless investigations into the management of his archives, as well as his finances in New York.
The lack of transparency of Donald Trump, who has made his wealth an argument in his campaign, has fueled speculation for years about the extent of his wealth or potential conflicts of interest.
His family’s company, The Trump Organization, was found guilty in early December of financial and tax fraud after a trial in New York where the former Republican president did not stand trial.
A separate parliamentary report on the US tax authorities also showed that the latter did not do what it was supposed to do for almost all of Donald Trump’s tasks.
The chair of this parliamentary committee, Democrat-elect Richard Neal, denounced, “It is a major failure of the US tax authorities.”
