Donald Trump accused House Democrats of overstepping their bounds by demanding his tax returns, reposting a tweet from Rep. Jim Jordan declaring that their motives were “purely political”
During and after the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has consistently claimed that he could not release his tax returns — an unspoken but nearly universally respected precedent for presidential nominees — as a consequence of being under audit by the IRS.
Late last week, a Virginia-based lawyer working for Trump urged Treasury’s general counsel to deny Neal’s request on the basis that there was neither a “legislative purpose” nor a “legitimate committee purpose” for seeking the president’s returns. And on Sunday, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Trump attorney Jay Sekulow also pushed back on the demand.
Sekulow, meanwhile, asserted that Democrats stood the chance of setting a dangerous precedent of weaponizing the IRS for political purposes.
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