US Treasury ordered to forward Donald Trump's tax returns

Donald Trump is the only president since the 1970s to have refused to make his tax returns public.

AP - Evan Vucci

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The Justice Department on Friday ordered the U.S. Treasury to provide Donald Trump's tax returns to Congress.

It is a blow for the former president who refuses for years to make them public.

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With our correspondent in New York

,

Loubna Anaki

He had used all the means at his disposal to block the publication of his tax documents: presidential immunity, the separation of powers.

Donald Trump had even gone to the Supreme Court.

He is the only president, since the 1970s, to have refused to make his tax returns public.

A lack of transparency that had prompted a parliamentary commission headed by the Democrats to open an investigation into the

Republican's finances

and possible conflicts of interest.

A parallel investigation by the New York prosecutor

The Biden administration has therefore just ordered the Treasury to provide the documents requested by the commission.

These are mainly documents over six years, between 2010 and 2018. All this in parallel with the investigation conducted by the New York prosecutor, still on the finances of the former president.

There too,

Donald Trump

had tried to block everything, but justice agreed with the prosecutor.

On Friday July 30, the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, hailed a victory for "

 the rule of law

 ".

The Biden Admin has delivered a victory for the rule of law as it respects the public interest by complying w / Chairman Neal's request for Donald Trump's tax returns.

I applaud Chairman Neal for his dignified pursuit of the truth & the Biden Admin DOJ for its respect for the law.

- Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 30, 2021

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