Every single president and every single Vice President has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. And they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the Trump Campaign never made sense. Being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. Also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. Even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed . Any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. Those would be closed. So why not release those earlier tax returns even if you dont want to release the current ones for which there isnt an excuse not to do anyway . Whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in
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A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Cohen, the manafort ruling, and the president s reaction. A lot happening tonight. Democrats pushing talk of impeachment, but President Trump is fighting back. Tweeting that the only thing he did wrong was when an election that Hillary Clinton was supposed to emerge victorious i in. In an exclusive interview with fox friends ainsley earhardt, the President Lashing out at michael cohen. The president had said publicly paid Stormy Daniels because he wanted to go straight it was false in the waning days of the campaign and the president is getting backup from liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz who told bret baier that the pundits claiming the president is an unindicted coconspirator are wrong as a matter of basic criminal law. It would not be a crime for the president to contribute money to his own campaign in the form of money to Stormy Daniels or anyone else. Even as democrats about their attacks on the presiden
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