Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns were released Friday by a US House of Representatives committee after a protracted legal battle.
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Unlike all his predecessors, Donald Trump, who has started a new race for the White House in 2024, has not made his tax returns public since the 1970s and has raised many substantive questions.
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee voted to release the billionaire’s six-year tax returns between 2015 and 2020.
This group of elected officials spent three years demanding the documents the billionaire sent to the tax authorities between those years, which he refused. The Supreme Court finally ruled in her favor at the end of November.
Donald Trump strongly condemned this decision in a press release to CBS on Friday, but assured that these statements “only demonstrate my success once more”.
Their publication is an additional setback for the former White House tenant, who is already the subject of countless investigations into the management of his archives as well as his financial affairs in New York.
Donald Trump’s lack of transparency, who used his wealth as a campaign argument, has fueled speculation about the amount of his wealth or possible conflicts of interest for years.
His family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty of financial and tax fraud in early December after a trial in New York that failed to bring the former Republican president to justice.
A separate parliamentary report on the US tax authorities also showed that they had not done what they were supposed to do for most of Donald Trump’s tenure.
“This is a major failure by the American tax authorities,” criticized the chairman of this parliamentary committee, the Democrat-elected Richard Neal.