A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 4, 2023.
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The returns themselves were the story, but the January 3 fallout was the point: the more Trump tried to sell the myth, the more the public got the math.
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Donald Trump’s tax returns, released by the House Ways and Means Committee on December 30, 2022, kept drawing attention in the first days of January as the committee report and the records renewed questions about his finances and the IRS audit process.