Daniel Hemel: Trump's Tweets About His Taxes Makes the Argument Against Releasing Them "Patently Preposterous"

Trump just gave the House a very good reason to look at his tax returns

The disclosure this week that Donald Trump accumulated a staggering $1.17 billion in losses from 1985 to 1994 was not, in itself, terribly surprising to anyone who has followed Trump’s financial travails. That’s because the same New York Times reporters who broke this week’s story — and who won a Pulitzer Prize for their investigations into the president’s personal finances — had previously unearthed state tax returns from 1995 showing that Trump claimed tax losses of close to $1 billion. What’s truly stunning, however, is how Trump responded to the news.

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