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
not perform any mandator audits of trump in his first two years as president in fact, the irs only bega auditing trump s pre-electio tax returns in 2019, and onl on the same day that house democrats asked the irs fo trump s tasks filings an audits the agency still has not finished those audits. it is not even worth asking wh trump lied, but why didn t trump get audited as require before congress started asking questions? or, we are likely to know an not more soon since the ways and means committee, which now has years of trump s tax returns. they also voted this week to release returns to the public. that move comes not long after the house january six committe issued to the department o justice a criminal referral fo trump stemming from hi activities on january 6th. including her starting and insurrection but, don t forget trump is still under criminal investigation for hi possession of those classified