The former president, who embarked on a new race for the White House for 2024, had not made known his income, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Their publication is an additional setback for the former tenant of the White House. The income statements by former President Donald Trump was made public on Friday, December 30, by a American parliamentary committee, after a long legal battle.
Donald Trump, who embarked on a new race for the White House for 2024, had not made his statements known to the taxman, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, arousing many questions On their content.
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee had voted in favor of the publication of the six years of income from the billionaire from 2015 to 2020. This group of elected officials demanded for three years the documents sent to the tax by the billionaire between these years years, what he refused. The Supreme Court finally agreed to them at the end of November.
lack of transparency
Donald Trump strongly denounced this decision in a statement to CBS on Friday, ensuring however that these statements “only show once again [his] success”.
The lack of transparency of Donald Trump, who has made his wealth a campaign argument, has fueled speculation for years on the extent of his fortune or on potential conflicts of interest.
The former president is already the subject of a myriad of surveys on the management of his archives, as in his financial affairs in New York. His family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty in early December of financial and tax fraud after a trial in New York where the former republican president was not tried.
A separate parliamentary report on the American taxman also showed that the latter had not done what he should do for almost all of Donald Trump’s mandate. “It is a major failure of the American taxman,” said the head of the parliamentary committee in charge of the file, the elected democrat Richard Neal.
