Donald Trump Will Not Release Tax Returns, White House Adviser Says

NBC News ^ | 2017-01-22 | Alexandra Jaffe

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said Sunday that the president would not be releasing his tax returns, reversing months of repeated campaign-trail promises to do so after an audit is completed.

Conway's comments came in response to a Whitehouse.gov petition with more than 200,000 signatures calling on Trump to release his tax returns. Any petition on the site that receives 100,000 signatures in 30 days receives a response from the White House; this petition reached twice that in two days.

"The White House response is that he's not going to release his tax returns," Conway said in an interview on ABC's "This Week."

Trump broke with decades of precedent during the campaign by becoming the first major party nominee since the 1970s to refuse to release his tax returns. He repeatedly cited an ongoing IRS audit in refusing to do so but said he would eventually release them when the audit was completed.

But Trump and his allies have argued that his tax returns are irrelevant, a statement Conway made again on Sunday.

"We litigated this all through the election. People didn't care," she said.

"They voted for him, and let me make this very clear: Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like. And you know full well that President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president."

[Just mythoughts]

I got ticked off in the primary when the junior senators were ragging Trump to show his tax returns. Most especially when one Harvard Law School grad, was too incompetent to correctly file his financial disclosure forms. Then there were audacious claims that Trumps tax returns might demonstrate his ‘mob’ connections.

Then crooked Hillry took up the charge, to have a look see at Trump's tax returns, when she had her emails bleached..

So this news is a big thumbs up for me... ‘We the people’ are near stripped clean bare by big mama sow government regulating, mandating and taxing US into the poor house. GO Trump, relieve US from this servitude. No regulation - taxation - mandates without representation!!!

[SuziQ]

LOL! This will cause liberal conniption fits. GOOD!

I didn't care to see any politician's income tax returns. It's nobody's business but their own.

[SuziQ]

Kellyanne should say that Mr. Trump has chosen to relase his tax returns to the IRS instead of CNN.

That would be excellent.