The US Department of Justice has ordered the Treasury to forward tax records of former US President Donald Trump to Congress. Acting Assistant Attorney General Dawn Johnsen thus accepted the request submitted last June by the Commission for the use of funds from the House of Representatives. The Commission had been trying to obtain Trump’s tax returns since 2019 and had also sued former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the Internal Revenue Service to secure the documents.
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This is a step backwards from the orientation expressed by the Justice Department during the Trump administration. At the time, the Treasury was warned that “the Constitution requires the Commission to demonstrate a legitimate legislative purpose” for the request. The then head of the Legal Advice Bureau, Steven A. Angel, called the Commission’s requests “a pretext”, accusing it of “requesting the information with the aim of making it public, which we do not believe is a legitimate purpose. legislative”.
Access to former US President Donald Trump’s previous tax returns is “a matter of national security,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
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by our correspondent Anna Lombardi
“You say the elections were corrupt”
The news comes on the day when it is learned that Trump pressured the Justice Department to declare the results of the 2020 presidential elections “corrupt”. This is what emerges from documents released by the Supervisory and Reform Commission of the House of Representatives. The documents are notes by Richard Donoghue, former deputy of the then interim Minister of Justice Jeffrey Rosen and would refer to a phone call between Trump, Rosen and Donoghue dating back to last December 27 during which Donoghue would have explained to the former president that the department it could not change the outcome of the elections. “I don’t expect you to do this, just say the elections were corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republicans in Congress,” Trump would have replied.
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