.MaddowBlog: Treasury secretary ignores law, keeps Pres. Trump’s tax returns hidden.
In recent years, the debate over Donald Trump’s secret tax returns has been fought out largely in the realm of norms, traditions, and expectations. The president was the first major-party candidate of the post-Watergate era to hide these materials from the public – despite assurances that he wouldn’t – and the political controversy has led to a series of questions about propriety.
It was more of a directive than a request. Existing federal law, which has been on the books for nearly a century, says the Treasury “shall furnish” the tax materials in response to a formal request from one of a handful of congressional lawmakers, including the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
The Treasury secretary told House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., in a letter that his committee’s request for the president’s tax returns “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.” All of this is almost certainly headed for the courts, where Team Trump is likely to lose. For now, however, the president, his lawyers, and the officials who answer to him are willing to keep fighting and delaying.
In reality, Obama wasn’t spending millions to hide anything, though nearly seven years later, the question has new relevance as Trump scrambles to keep his own records hidden.
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