“Yeah, I would like to,” Kennedy said when CNN asked about House Democrats formally seeking to obtain Trump’s taxes . said Thursday that he “would like to” see President Donald Trump’s taxes, but also argued that Trump’s false claim that he cannot release them because he is under IRS audit is “legitimate” ― though the IRS itself has refuted that. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota: “Do you want to see President Trump’s taxes?” GOP @SenJohnKennedy : “Yeah, I would like to.” https://t.co/gSEdFV7ar0 pic.twitter.com/qyG5kGXvxPHouse Ways and Means chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) on Wednesday formally asked the Treasury Department to disclose Trump’s taxes, which the president has long tried to avoid disclosing by falsely claiming that being under IRS audit means that he cannot release them. During the Watergate scandal in 1974, the Joint Committee on Taxation obtained President Richard Nixon’s tax returns and released them to the House.

Source: Huffington Post April 04, 2019 15:33 UTC