Trump's tax becomes public - ex-president caught lying
Created: 12/22/2022, 4:48 am
By: Daniel Dillman
Congress votes to release Donald Trump's tax filings in the coming days.
Individual details that are unsightly for Trump are already known.
Tax returns should be published
: Donald Trump loses the fight for tax documents
Committee announces:
Committee of the US House of Representatives will publish Donald Trump's tax assessments in the coming days
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All news and current developments from the USA relating to Donald Trump's tax in our new ticker.
Update, 12/21/2022, 3:25 p.m .:
According to Steven Cheung, spokesman for Donald Trump, his tax return would only show that he “built a very successful business and created numerous lucrative assets over the course of his career”.
Cheung accused the Democrats of playing a "political game".
Instead of Donald Trump's tax returns, "They should release the tax returns of Nancy Pelosi and her crazy husband Paul to see how much dirty money they've made selling America and endangering our national security."
First message:
Washington, DC – It is probably the most momentous week for Donald Trump since the start of his political career.
First, the US Congressional Capitol Storming Committee recommended that the Justice Department file indictments against Trump.
The former President of the USA is said to have made himself punishable in four counts.
It was the first time in the country's history that Congress recommended an agency investigate a head of state.
But that was not all.
Just one day later, a committee of Democrats in the House of Representatives dropped the next bombshell.
Donald Trump's tax documents from the past six years, i.e. since he took office after the US election in 2016, are to be published in the next few days.
First, critical passages in the documents would have to be blacked out.
Donald Trump and the tax - no check by the authorities
It is already known, however, that the US tax office apparently did not subject Donald Trump's tax documents to a standard check after he moved into the White House as required.
According to the report, the tax authority disregarded its own rules, according to which the tax assessments of all presidents are to be checked.
"It will probably surprise people how much the IRS
Red.] broke their own rules," said Dan Kildee, Democratic Assemblyman.
According to the Reuters
news agency, the authority has
not yet commented on the allegations.
Donald Trump loses the battle for his tax records.
(Archive image) © BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP
Donald Trump caught lying
This, in turn, proves that Donald Trump lied multiple times during the 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton.
At the time, the Republican candidate claimed that he could not follow the tradition of American presidential candidates to make their tax returns public before the election.
The reason he gave was a routine review of his tax records.
But this did not take place.
The documents already published prove this.
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Donald Trump's tax assessments - only a few details included
However, it remains unclear whether Donald Trump's tax assessments really provide information about his financial situation and the amount of taxes he has paid.
According to the committee, the tax assessments to be made public would contain few details.
But the mere fact that Trump has been fighting tooth and nail for more than six years against the documents being published suggests that one or the other unpleasant detail will be hidden.
1999
: Donald Trump flirted with a candidacy for the office of US President for the first time.
In an interview with MNSBC, he says of his tax returns: "I probably wouldn't have any problem publishing them."
2011
: Donald Trump demands that US President Barack Obama publish his birth certificate in exchange for a promise to publish his tax assessments.
A week later, Obama released the certificate.
Trump says his tax filings will be released "at an appropriate time."
2012
: In an interview, Donald Trump asked the then Republican presidential nominee to release his tax records.
Otherwise, people would assume that "something was going wrong."
2014
: Donald Trump says in an interview: "If I decide to run for office, I will definitely file my tax returns, and I will be happy to do so."
2015
: Donald Trump again promises to make his tax returns public if he runs for president the following year.
February 2016:
When asked, Donald Trump announced that his tax documents would be released "in the coming months".
May 2016:
Donald Trump says he will not release his tax records before the November 2016 election, breaking with a tradition held by candidates from both parties since 1976.
January 2017:
Donald Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway says the White House will not release any presidential tax filings "for the foreseeable future".
April 2019:
Democrats in the US Congress instruct the US Internal Revenue Service to hand over Donald Trump's tax records to Parliament.
Donald Trump appeals.
August 2022:
The appeal is rejected, Donald Trump's tax documents must be sent to Congress.
Trump is appealing again, this time to the Supreme Court, the country's highest court.
November 2022:
The Supreme Court rejects the objection.
(Daniel Dillmann)
