Justice department tells IRS to hand Trump tax
returns to Congress –
• IRS must give Trump tax returns to ways and means
committee
• Notes show Trump pressed DoJ officials to call
election corrupt
18:51
House
speaker Nancy Pelosi applauded the justice department for ordering the IRS to
turn over Donald Trump’s tax returns to the House ways and mean committee.
“Today, the
Biden Administration has delivered a victory for the rule of law, as it
respects the public interest by complying with Chairman Neal’s request for
Donald Trump’s tax returns,” the Democratic speaker said in a new statement.
“Access to
former President Trump’s tax returns is a matter of national security. The
American people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of
interest and undermining of our security and democracy as president.”
Trump has
fought for years to keep his tax returns from public view, although the New
York Times previously obtained some of the records, which showed the former
president paid almost nothing in federal income taxes in the years before he
entered the White House.
2h ago
18:31
DoJ says
IRS must give Trump tax returns to House committee
Martin
Pengelly Martin Pengelly
Double
trouble for Donald Trump. The US Department of Justice has ordered the Internal
Revenue Service to hand over his tax returns to a House committee, saying the
panel has invoked “sufficient reasons” for requesting it.
There are
also further developments in the saga of Trump’s attempt to overturn his
election defeat by Joe Biden, in the shape of the news that Trump pressured top
justice department officials to falsely claim the 2020 election was corrupt so
he and his allies in Congress could subvert the results and return him to
office, according to newly released memos.
As Hugo
Lowell puts it for us from Washington:
“Just say
that the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me,” the former president
told former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy, Richard
Donoghue, memos obtained by the House oversight committee showed.
The notes
were taken by Donoghue, who documented a 27 December call with Trump and Rosen.
The
documentation of Trump’s demand to the justice department represented an extraordinary
instance of a president seeking to weaponise an agency that is supposed to
operate independently of the White House, to advance his own personal interests
and political agenda.
It is also
the latest example of the far-reaching campaign mounted by Trump over the final
weeks of his presidency to falsely cast doubt on the results of the 2020
election, which he lost to Joe Biden in a contest devoid of any widespread
voter fraud.
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