WikiLeaks Wants to Publish Trump's Tax Returns
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After Kellyanne Conway stated during an interview with ABC's This Week that President Donald Trump would not be releasing his tax returns, WikiLeaks took to Twitter on Sunday to encourage anyone with access to the documents to send them their way so that they could release them instead.
Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today that Trump will not release his tax returns. Send them to: https://t.co/cLRcuIiQXz so we can.
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 22, 2017
Trump's breach of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more gratuitous than Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts.
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 22, 2017
"Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today that Trump will not release his tax returns," WikiLeaks tweeted. "Send them to: https:// wikileaks.org/#submit so we can."
"Trump's breach of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more gratuitous than Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts," the organization continued in a separate tweet.
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While not the first time the organization has encouraged whistleblowers to submit Trump's tax returns for publication, WikiLeaks' Sunday tweets were perhaps their most concentrated efforts on the subject yet. And while at this time, it appears no one has taken the bait, Conway has since reversed her stance on the matter, stating via Twitter that Trump is under routine audit and will release his tax returns after the audit is complete - something the president repeatedly promised during his campaign despite the IRS giving him the go-ahead to release his tax returns immediately.
On taxes, answers (& repeated questions) are same from campaign: POTUS is under audit and will not release until that is completed. #nonews
- Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) January 23, 2017
WikeLeaks later retweeted this claim, noting that she had returned to Trump's original stance on the matter.
Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway now says that Trump will release tax returns after all (but only "after audit") https://t.co/nZmmq8klO7
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 24, 2017
Meanwhile, despite Trump and his team's repeated claims that the public does not care about his tax returns, a White House petition demanding the immediate release of the president's "full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance," has amassed nearly 300,000 signatures over the last three days, well over its original goal of 100,000.
You can find out more about that petition right here.
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