unlucky business person or did he inflate those losses. for that we need further information. right. we ll have to continue to come through the documents. and margaret, before we go, i want to ask you, also, a look ahead. what does it mean going ahead? we could talk about the fact that he didn t release them in 2016 but he s running for president again. what does this mean as we look ahead to 2024. i think this provides a lot more potential for scrutiny of a i was going to say a second run, but donald trump s run for president and it kind ever closes that gap between spin and reality. he s been one of the masters of our time at spinning a narrative and this creates a fact check against all of the points in the narrative, from how wealthy he is to how successful the businesses are to who he s connected to from a business perspective and that is important scrutiny and ammunition for his political opponents in the party as well
release the tax returns of the liberal supreme court justices, to which democrats have said that s all to the good. more transparency for public officials is is a good thing. democrats that i have spoken to about this, to inchud some members on the committee, this is about trump, but it s measure just trump. it s about presidential accountability, making sure that the irs works, as it is supposed to, and it s about transparency across the word. so we ll see. as you mentioned, republicans take control of the house next week and control of the committee as well. if they are focused on retribution, democrats have made the case that there are bugger issues at play than just the politics of it. wrap this up for us. obviously, there is some political fallout for donald trump. but i have to assume that most people have already made up their minds as it relates to donald trump s taxes. how big of an issue could this potentially be for him in his second run for president. it could be a nagg
president biden has released 24 years of tax returns. nothing they re going to do there. this is not a random person. this request came when this person was running for office, later was in office. there is a specific process for audits of presidents. and there in fact the point of it is to show that no one is above the law. and here is a special process to handle this person who is in a very particular position. i mean, there is some irony here that all these years later, as he has launched his second run, here this issue is facing him again. and the supreme court did not step in to save him. he has also lost on the issue of a special master for reviewing the documents coming out of mar-a-lago. now there are the criminal referrals that have come out of the house select committee. i mean, for a person who has just launched another campaign for president, it s kind of been hit after hit for the last couple of weeks. so michael, the former president thought this, as addi was saying.
republicans have been complaining if house ways and means can release a private citizen s tax returns. the issue whether or not citizens should release tax returns, there is wide agreement among people that candidates and perhaps president should. but whether or not they can be compelled to is a separate issue. republicans perhaps our threatening turn about here. do you think we can expect them, when they take control of the house in weeks, to release private citizens tax returns? president biden by the way has released 24 years of tax returns so, nothing they will do there. this is not a random person right? this request came when the person was running for office, later was in office. there is a specific process for audits of presidents. and in fact, the point of it is to show that nobody is above the law. here is a special process to handle this person who is in a particular position. there is some irony here that all of these years later, as he has launched his second run, he