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House to Decide Today If Trump's Tax Records Will Be Made Public

House to Decide Today If Trump's Tax Records Will Be Made Public

After being granted access to Donald Trump's tax records on December 1, the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee will decide if the documents should be made public today, December 20.

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Reuters confirmed that the Democrat-led committee will meet today at 3:00 p.m. EST.

Trump, who reportedly wanted the IRS to investigate his political foes during his Presidency from 2017 to 2021, and his legal team have done everything in their power to block the release of his own tax records to the House.

He became the first Presidential candidate in years to refuse to release his tax records during his candidacy. While this isn't required by law, it is common practice. 

In early December, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department told CNN, "Treasury has complied with last week's [Supreme Court] court decision."

The Ways and Means Committee, headed by Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), has been seeking the documents for several years.

Furthermore, the Trump Organization criminal tax lawsuit recently wrapped up in Manhattan, with the company found guilty on all counts

Former CFO Allen Weisselberg, who previously took a plea deal that includes prison time, provided key testimony in the trial. 

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Although Donald Trump was not himself named as a defendant in the criminal proceedings, he has been facing an onslaught of his own legal problems following the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. 

The businessman's Mar-a-Lago property in Florida was the subject of a now-infamous Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid -- in which many of the tax documents in question were seized -- on August 8 and, per Bloomberg, the businessman "invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Wednesday [August 10] to avoid answering deposition questions in a civil probe of his family real estate business by New York Attorney General Letitia James."

Trump also recently came under fire for falsely accusing past Presidents George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama of keeping classified documents, as well. 

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In addition to the aforementioned situations, the Trump family faces several other legal woes. Letitia James and her office have officially filed a $250 million civil suit against Trump, and the former President is also the subject of an ongoing 2020 election fraud probe in Georgia.

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