Sometime soon, a congressional committee led by Democrats will begin doling out former President Donald Trump's income tax returns to the public. The disclosure marks the end of a bitter, multi-year battle to keep the returns under wraps. It all would have been unnecessary if Trump had done what every president since Gerald Ford had done: release them voluntarily.  Photographer: Thomas Simonetti for the Washington Post via Getty Images Trump's predecessors released theirs to help promote bipartisan transparency and good government in the post-Watergate era. He had no interest in any of that when he landed in the White House, and relied on a litany of howlers, including claiming his was being audited, to explain his recalcitrance. What a fine mess he has gotten himself into. There are certainly more surprises to come, but a pair of summaries of the House Ways and Means Committee's analysis of Trump's personal and business tax records from 2015 through 2020 contained interesting revelations that will trouble the former president and certainly draw the attention of prosecutors.
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