According to media reports, the US Treasury Department is making former President Donald Trump’s tax documents available to a congressional committee. Trump had resisted using legal means to release the documents for years — and finally failed in the Supreme Court last week. The currently Democratic-led committee in Congress has little time to lose the majority to the Republicans – an immediate publication of the documents is not foreseen, however.
“The Treasury Department has complied with last week’s court ruling,” US media quoted a spokesman for the ministry as saying on Wednesday. The Supreme Court had rejected a request from his lawyers to stop sending tax documents to the Democrat-led Treasury Committee in the House of Representatives.
Does Trump have something to hide?
Contrary to common practice in the United States, real estate entrepreneur Trump did not make his tax returns public, either as a presidential candidate or after taking office in the White House. Critics therefore suspect that the Republican has something to hide.
The Democrats want to check, among other things, whether the documents show a conflict of interest of the entrepreneur and whether he has used dubious methods to save tax. Two weeks ago, Trump announced that he would run again as the Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
Success at the last minute
According to the reports, the documents are not expected to be released to the public immediately. It also remained unclear whether the members of the committee could already view the documents. For the committee, the Supreme Court’s decision was a last-minute success: Since Republicans won the majority in the US midterm elections and will be in charge there from early January, the Democrat-led body has little time left. tune in a bit.
Trump is currently embroiled in several legal disputes — including over taking secret government documents to his private estate after leaving the White House.
Source: Krone
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