WikiLeaks
calls for leak of Donald Trump's secret tax returns after US
President fails to release them
The
relationship between Julian Assange and the new President had looked
to be warming in recent weeks
Andrew Griffin
@_andrew_griffin
WikiLeaks has
requested that someone send it Donald Trump's tax returns so they can
finally be made public.
The call came soon
after spokesperson for the Trump camp Kellyanne Conway appeared to
suggest that the new president's tax history will never be released.
Mr Trump had previously said that he could release the documents, but
that he was waiting for them to be "audited".
Ms Conway's
statement broke with a 40-year tradition and suggested that Mr Trump
will continue to be far more opaque about his tax and business
dealings than any US president before.
The statement came
after a petition asking that Mr Trump release his tax returns was
signed by hundreds of thousands of people.
Breaking the promise
to release the returns appears to have irritated WikiLeaks and Julian
Assange, which had mostly released damaging information about Hillary
Clinton throughout the electoral campaign. Now it has suggested that
Mr Trump's lack of transparency about his tax returns is worse than
the behaviour of Ms Clinton.
“Trump’s breach
of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more
gratuitous than Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts,"
the WikiLeaks account – which is understood to be run primarily by
Julian Assange – tweeted.
It then tweeted
again to ask someone to send the returns to it so that they could be
published.
WikiLeaks posted a
range of information throughout the election campaign, the most
high-profile of which were emails sent by Clinton campaign manager
John Podesta.
Mr Trump tweeted
approvingly about Julian Assange after those releases, in what
appeared to be an admission of warming relations between the two men.
Ms Conway said that
the American public didn't care whether or not Mr Trump released his
tax returns, despite numerous polls showing otherwise.
Every president
since 1976 has released the information, but Ms Conway said she does
not believe Americans care whether Mr Trump follows suit.
"He's not going
to release his tax returns. We litigated this all through the
election. People didn't care," she said on ABC's This Week
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