DAVE ROSS

The one U.S. secret that will never be declassified

Apr 28, 2017, 6:02 AM | Updated: Apr 30, 2017, 1:25 pm

President Donald Trump said it over and over again during the campaign: regular people aren’t interested in seeing his tax returns.

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“Nobody cares about it except some of the folks in the media. Nobody cares about it,” he said.

But now he has announced what his own treasury secretary has called “the biggest tax cut” in US history. That raises new questions, like the one a reporter asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during this week’s news conference.

“Exactly a year ago, then-candidate Trump was asked if he believes in raising taxes on the wealthy, he said, ‘I do, I do, including myself.'”

I looked it up. He said that during the “Today Show” on April 21, 2016. He said, “I do,” three times.

So, assuming we still care about holding politicians to their word, we would be entitled to know whether this tax plan would indeed raise taxes on President Donald Trump.

And for us to know that, we would have to ask this question, which was also asked during this week’s news conference: Will the president release his tax returns?

To which Mnuchin responded: “The president has no intention. The president has released plenty of information. I think the American population has plenty of information … other people have the right to ask questions.”

“Other people have the right to ask questions,” just not the one about the president’s tax returns.

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