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Question remains unanswered of why the IRS failed to audit Trump's taxes
December 28, 2022 6:39AM ET
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A gaping question remains to be answered following the House Ways and Means Committee’s decision to release Donald Trump’s tax returns: Why did the Internal Revenue Service fail to audit Trump’s taxes during the first two years of his presidency, as required by law? There’s a growing mountain of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Trump used political pressure and strategic appointments of loyalists to block IRS auditors from doing their job. If that’s the case, it would hardly be surprising, given Trump’s track record. But it would mean that someone, somewhere, violated the law, possibly ...