Trump about to learn a brutal lesson about hiding information from the public: CNN legal analyst

CNN legal analyst Susan Hennessey said on Friday that President Donald Trump was about to learn a brutal lesson about hiding information from the public, as Congress demands six years of his tax returns from the IRS. Hennessey made the observation after Trump's free-wheeling press conference held before departing for the U.S.-Mexico border.

"There's no law that prevents the president from handing over his tax returns under audit," Hennessey said. "But there's a more significant law now, which is that Congress has actually requested those returns."

"The law is very, very clear on that, the IRS now has to produce those returns to Congress," she went on. "Even though he's reportedly installed someone at the IRS who he thinks might be in a position to protect him, this is an area in which federal law is not ambiguous."

"The president is about to learn that there's a difference between sort of the passive nondisclosure of just ignoring things, versus actually what the political optics are of having that aggressive fight trying to keep these tax returns secret," Hennessey added.

"It's certainly going to raise the suspicion that he has something significant to hide."

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