President Donald .
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Democrats had hoped they would quickly be in possession of troves of internal Trump administration documents, but it has become clear that a long and frustrating fight with Trump lawyers lies ahead, a fight that could end up in court. Those battles could take many months, possibly stretching well into 2020 as the president runs for re-election.
We know Trump made his money in bussiness, but all Congress and Senators should release 6 years of tax return so voters can they became millionaires working for tax payers.
Trump never listens to any advice ever given to him yet he wants you to believe that suddenly it is up to his lawyers on whether to release his tax returns or not. Why start listening to them now?
The one in prison?
If cheetoh doesn’t comply the Congress must subpoena any accountant or accounting firm with any involvement with his taxes - that should help clarify some...
No one is asking Trump for his tax returns.
All elected politicians should release their tax returns, birth certificates, and college transcripts. They work for the people.
How many people sign their tax returns and know everything that has been claimed when filled out by others?
Nobody in this country gives a rat’s rump about President Trump’s taxes. We see this for exactly what it is another failed attempt by the Democrats to get in the way of our productive president. Just makes us wonder what they’ll come up with next.More silliness we’re sure of that
Trump is doing a good job at sticking to the Clinton playbook delay, delay, delay. 👍
He has no choice
It's not up to him. They aren't asking him for them. Mnuchin has to comply with the law.
Has anyone else noticed just how bald he's getting? That's BALD, not BOLD. His hair is vanishing at a rapid rate, hopefully by June he'll have gone the same way
Dems are fighting another battle they can't win and this might turn back to hunt them with time.
...where’s the dodge?
He didn't dodge it. He's going to fight it if it ever gets past him ignoring their requests. He shouldn't be required to give up his rights as a United States citizen. That used to mean something! realDonaldTrump should sue for harassment when he's done in 6 years. More winning!
Trump should continue to say this to reporters as well. These reporters are not there to ask questions, they are there to trap him with a question.
IRS A Seperate Independent Federal Office Regardless of Party & Not Control of Executive Branch or Control of Trump or White House Officials !! Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code Order 7217. Prohibition on Executive Branch influence over taxpayer audits & other investigations !!
yep, guilty!
No they won’t dude. They’ll just get them directly from the IRS. You’re not being asked, you donkey.
The irs woulda locked him up dont you think?
Yeah right, time to talk to Cohen
Obama trolled the right with his birth certificate. Trump trolls the left left with his tax returns. Dance puppets!!
The crazy part of realDonaldTrump’s current avoidance is that during the 2016 campaign he swore he’d release his taxreturns as soon as he was out of IRStaxpros audit. Yet another TrumpLie, I reckon. cc: maga
No, his lawyers have absolutely nothing to do with this. The Chair of Ways and Means was meticulous in using the law to craft his request of the IRS. Thank you RepRichardNeal
Qanon that news refuses to ask.
potus is irrelevant here! Bypassed!
Just say'NO'
Talk to his lawyers!! 😂😂 Obama never had no damn lawyers sitting by on retainer! You know you doing dirt if you got lawyers on speed dial!!
Nobody is asking him.
It’s amazing! Who let this happen?
Don’t think it’s up to him anymore
They didn't ask Trump, they have asked the IRS. After the inquisition of Cohen, one knows that Trump is guilty of tax fraud. Move over Al Capone!
Perhaps he just views the Justice department, and the IRS counsels as “his lawyers”.
Corrupt. Unfit. Impeach and inprisson.
Of course.
Since PELOSI, FINESTINE, SCHUMER, DURBIN AND ALL THE SENATORS. . .WORK FOR ME, 'WE THE PEOPLE' I WANT ALL OF THEIR TAXES!!! MOST ARE MULTI-MILLIONARES. . . WHERE DID THEY GET THOSE MILLIONS WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!!
6103(f) of the Tax Code, which permits the Committee on Ways and Means to request tax information on presidents or vice presidents that is held by the IRS. Trump can't stop this.
Meaning no.
Like AOC said...didn't ask you.
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Actually not, the laws says the IRS needs to give them up
He is desperately trying to convince people that he has to release them. He doesn’t. They didn’t ask him. The committee requested the returns—legally, with clear precedent—from the irs. Trump is just trying to muddy the waters.
No surprise that Trump doesn’t understand he is not involved on releasing the returns, but I don’t get why REPORTERS don’t understand this!!!
LOL, sorry, Donny, that's not how it works.
Why not have Obama release his for the last 10 years... It is amazing how his net worth increased so much on the salary he made.
Uh,no they don't. but nice try.
drhuseman That's his favorite statement 'talk to my lawyers'.
No, the lawmakers don't need to nor will they speak to his lawyers. His ignorance is both wide and deep.
TotallyWhatInnocentPeopleDo
Why on earth do they need his tax returns honestly?
You don’t get to decide anything about turning over your taxes nobody asked you they asked the IRS it’s the law
Why are reporters asking DJT about this? The IRS was asked to release the taxes. Don’t the reporters know what is going on?
Never going to happen. Trump and the GOP is dismantling our democracy. He’s becoming a dictator.
Those pesky lifelong audits can be brutal
He wasn't asked to release his tax returns. The IRS was. By Congress. As in, there is nothing he can do about it. And BTW, an audit doesn't mean doodley-squat, kind of like 'collusion'
Some dumb people think they're above the law. Hmm.
What are you hiding?
Release all of congress tax returns
He is just a crook.
Why should he?
Hey guys, I’m not releasing my tax returns either
Just say no. Stop lieing. We heard it all before.
BULLSH1T
Liar. Coward. Criminal.
We want Nancy Pelosi's tax returns. The cartels must pay well.
Good. Let his lawyers and CPA's deal with it.
What part of NO don't Dems understand?
Lol too bad they asked the IRS
As I understand it, they’re entitled by law to get them directly from the IRS. The time for him to provide them has passed. We have Democrats in the House working for the American people.
after Russia, now back to tax returns, silly journalism. 🤣🤣🤣
MAGA🇺🇸
He can be reached at the New York correctional facility at Rikers Island
Stop with the misleading headlines! It’s not up to Trump! It’s a statutory requirement! If Mnuchin doesn’t hand them over Mnuchin should be indicted for obstruction.
Nope, lawyers dont have a say.
I didn’t see in the Constitution that surrendering ones tax returns was a requirement to become President
'I/you have to talk to my lawyers.' Wish had a nickel for every time he's said that. Never used that phrase somehow.
No they don’t. The request went to the IRS. You have no say.
When’s the IRS going to complete it’s audit of Don’s taxes? Geesh.
He is rolling around on the daycare floor saying,'I won't give them my taxes'.
Proving once again that realDonaldTrump has no idea how our gov’t works. He has no choice in the matter.
If he hasn't released them up to this point, exactly what would make anyone believe that he will release them? I don't understand.
He’s setting up the IRS judicial team so don’t hold your breath on this one.
The Dems already have them,nice try
Oh, I gotta feeling they’re gonna do a little more than just talking
They will. And you will lose.
he's such an ass wipe. I wish somebody would ask him everyday about cancer causing windmills and where his dad was born. every day, He lies so fast, we just move on...I can't wait until is taxes are public. he's nothing but a fake
Trump’s lawyers have no say so in this matter
realDonaldTrump will not release, of his own free will, his tax returns. The House will have to go to the IRS directly, most likely with a subpeona. Then they should publicize them, so the entire world can see the corruption!
Asking people for their tax returns is BS. It is nobody's business. If the IRS sees a crime they will act accordingly. should demand ALL their employees release their taxes do the fact that millions of Americans believe you're being paid by TheDemocrats
His tax returns are none of Congress's business.
Coward!
As he should. His taxes don’t have shit with him being President!
They will
New law- everybody elected to public office has to make 5 years of tax returns available. If we are going to shatter privacy let’s nuke that shit.
No. No they won’t.
Why should he? What the hell is wrong with you all? I dont CARE ABOUT HIS TAXES! I CARE ABOUT MINE! Invasion of Privacy by the Govt is getting out of control, enough already!
I'm sure they'll want to talk to his lawyers, and the auditors, and the administrator, right after the IRS turns over all of the records. Looking forward to seeing that testimony on CPSAN.
The American People Have The Right si Screw His Lame Lawyers.
He is not going to let any see them because then we would know how much he has lied about his net worth.
They don't need to talk to anybody. That's what he doesn't understand.
My god what this man must be hiding. The IRS doesn't audit tax returns for years.
Ya.....they actually don’t.
'Have to talk to my lawyers.' Wish had a nickel for every time he's said that. Never used that phrase somehow.
Most Americans could care less about his taxes, bottom of the barrel, Huh...
Um, realDonaldTrump you realize the AG and White House Counsel are not your lawyers, right? They serve at your pleasure, but they work for us.
But do they need to talk to his lawyers? I believe there is a a law that allows Congress to acquire federal tax returns.
Never in a million years
Haven't seen this much politicization of the IRS since Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
Fortunately we no longer have to wait for him to release them. Ways and means committee bitch!
God almighty, he sure is afraid of those tax returns getting out!
The Warren Report and the reexamination of such decades later is a roadmap to the potential for conspiracies to occupy the ether. Release ALL to Congress, redacted to the public & press or a change in White House and Justice a short 2 years from now will release in its entirety!
Speak to his lawyers? You mean...
Donald knows, they even got Capone on taxes.
The Big Galoof doesn't know HE isn't the party of the order. Indeed, the IRS is the recipient of the order to produce Donald J. Trump's last 6 years of both business and personal tax records. Now DJT may mess his diaper over that fact but it's tantamount to pissing in the wind.
Du-du-duh!
Because he is sick of being harrassed !
There is no law that requires Trump to release his taxes...what I want to know is how congressmen/women became millionaires on current salaries.
It only seems right for those asking for him to release his tax returns, to release their own. What's fair is fair, right?
This is between the House and the IRS. It’s not his decision to make.
Don’t have to talk to lawyers as no taxes means the irs breaks the law!
Evasion and deflection... the things he does well.
It's not up to him, if his taxes get released. That's not how the law works.
They don't need to talk ro your lawyers. They didn't ask. He told them to provide them as his right under the law.
Even if you saw it, you couldn't prove shit anyway. I do taxes and there is no possible way to determine foul play if he has a semi competent tax preparer. Sorry guys. Another mueller report
They didn’t ask YOU for them, they asked the IRS for them.
I don't think they need to realDonaldTrump. They are asking the IRS for these tax returns
It's so sad that no one can trust in what Trump says I mean nothing nada not one word how sad is thst
So sick of this idiot congress. When will corrupt SpeakerPelosi and her shady husband show her taxes. And Feinstein, Schumer, Nadler and Stoyer and Schiff, and Elijah Cummings and Mad Maxine lol
You want to be the boss of us all. You share nothing. You're a big secret. You lie constantly. You should have disclosed like every other prez candidate. But no...had to be a secret. You are obtuse and know nothing of transparency. You are not fit to be leader of democracy
It’s not up to him! The law says Mnuchin SHALL release the returns when resuested by Congress. If Trump is directing Mnuchin to defy the law, report on that.
This is not a request to you realDonaldTrump. You don’t have to give permission. This is a right of Congress, established 100 years ago. Deal with it.
Who cares about his taxes it won't help the American people have better lives cut more regulations, taxes and fix healthcare, politicians should make American citizens lives better
Lol.. no.. they don't. His lawyers can go cry to the IRS and the Supreme Court.
He's not a smart guy, is he.
But they don't. He was not asked for them. The IRS does and can release them to Ways & Means without his permission.
Not how this works chief, you are screwed
We can't see the Mueller report, and can't see his taxes. But he's the most innocent man in the world.
I'm not sure they have to. Looks to me they can look at anyone's tax returns in executive session.
Because he’s not even a billionaire!! Leverage/credit
It's not up to Trump or his lawyers unless he's pulling a fast one and threatening the Treasury Secretary. The law is clear: Ways & Means has the right to get any citizens tax return upon request, not upon their approval or their lawyer's approval or their cover-up.
Hmm, hiding it because he knows he cheated. Just a guess.
I think Giuliani got prostrate cancer from a wind turbine
I’m thinking he needs to talk to his lawyers. The House doesn’t need his permission.
What is he hiding?
It would have been even better if he had casually belched while giving his answer. lol
Why don’t the people asking for his tax returns release theirs. No harm right? Be the example people.
You can try all you want, you will not get them. There is nothing you have won on with Trump
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