If anyone is debating whether Dem takeover of House could benefit Trump politically, remember THIS:
If anyone is really debating whether a Dem takeover of the House could benefit Trump politically, just remember this:
The chance of a Republican-controlled Congress choosing to make a Trump's tax returns public, without his consent no less, seems very remote at the moment. But if circumstances change, it might become an option lawmakers consider.
One such change might come if Democrats win back the House or Senate in the mid-term elections next year. Or if lawmakers have reason to believe the president broke a law.
During the last years of the Nixon administration, it came out that President Nixon had taken big deductions for donating his official papers to the National Archive. But the timing and valuation of the donations raised a lot of questions.
Nixon invited the Joint Committee on Taxation to review his returns despite an earlier audit by the IRS. The JCT found that Nixon owed far more money than he paid. And it chose to publicly release an extensive report that included Nixon's tax information, Yin noted in a Washington Post opinion piece.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/news/economy/trump-tax-returns/index.html
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