melissa murray in for mehd hassan for nearly half a century it was an obvious, clear norm if you wanted to be th president of the united states you had to show the american public where your money came from it was a norm that began amazingly, with richard nixo during the watergate scandal i 1973, when nixon released hi tax returns to fight off accusations of corruption. in fact, it was nixon s ta filings sparked one of the mos famous quotes in america politics i look on this kind o examination because people hav got to know whether or not their president as a crook, am not a crook, i have earne everything i have got. since then, every america president has released their tax returns or a summary o their taxes. well, all but one. and, you know which one. and you know why, or, at least his explanation of why i will absolutely give my return but i am being audite for two or three years, so, cannot do it until the audit i finished, obviously. it is under, i i will revisit
happened as far as the political fallout, probably for trump not much, except that it adds to a reall bad three or four weeks fo donald trump and, you know, people ar starting to look at othe potential candidates for 2024. so, i do not think thi necessarily hurts him with his base i am just happy to say that we get to have his taxes in ful view so, this is not all about donald trump, someone else has also failed here according to the house ways an needs committee the irs should have audited trump s tax returns, how did this oversigh even occur in first place? i think that is a 64,00 dollar question, melissa, wh did the irs not audit donald trump each year that they were supposed to, and only did so after they were prompted t audit by house democrats even at that, as the committee