Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks told MSNBC on Friday that she was less interested in seeing President Donald Trump's tax returns than she was in seeing his bank records -- because they'd prove the president has been inflating his wealth.
Wine-Banks made the comment during a wider discussion about Trump's "very unusual" involvement in appointing the next general counsel for the IRS, saying that Trump was likely "looking for his Roy Cohn" to "protect him" from Democratic demands for his tax returns. She also said that effort would likely fail miserably due to laws passed in 1928 to rein in then-Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, that give the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee absolute authority to see the president's taxes.
"Although this is a fight that will likely end up at the Supreme Court, no?" asked host Hallie Jackson.
"Yes. I think this president will not take it lightly and will fight it," Wine-Banks replied "But then we have to ask, why is he hiding his taxes? What is it in there?"
"Normally you don't learn that much from a tax return," Wine-Banks went on. "I'd rather see his bank records and see all of the banks that he does business with because we'll learn much more for that."
"There is at least the possibility that he isn't as rich as he says he is," she continued, "and that's what he doesn't want us to know."
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