Tax Returns Must Be One Question At Trump Press Conference

I’m assuming there will be something resembling a real press conference today by Donald Trump, not just some announcement of how he is passing on control of the Trump Organization to his sons or a promo for his hotel without taking any reporters’ questions. That is probably a big assumption in the wake of the unsubstantiated reports of connections between the Russian and the Trump campaign as well as the Donald’s sexual proclivities in Moscow hotels that was released by Buzzfeed yesterday.

As expected, Trump let loose with a tweetstorm early this morning, denying any Russian connections by quoting the Kremlin, ripping the intelligence community for leaking these documents, and calling it fake news. So we can expect the press conference, if there is one, to be dominated by this news. It would be nice if the press could also focus on Trump’s ongoing conflicts of interests and, yes, his taxes.

In the wake of these latest allegations which show that Trump was happy that the focus on his Russian connections would take away from any investigation of his Chinese connections as well as what we expect to be an insufficient divestiture of the Trump Organization, it is imperative that we get to look at Trump’s taxes at last. Let’s hope we get at least one question on that today.