President Trump said in a new interview that he believes his “financial statement” will be turned over “at some point.”
Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the Senate is “after my financial statement,” adding that “at some point, I hope they get it.”
{mosads}“You going to turn it over?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“At some point, I might,” Trump said. “It’s a fantastic financial statement.”
He added: “I look forward to, frankly — I’d like to have people see my financial statement because it’s phenomenal.”
Trump is the first president in 40 years who has refused to release his tax returns while in office. Democrats have been pushing to order the release of the president’s financial documents.
On Friday, the Department of Justice released a legal opinion backing the Treasury Department’s defiance of a House subpoena from congressional Democrats, who are seeking six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns.
The opinion came after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last month rejected a subpoena from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.).
Trump told Stephanopoulos in the interview, which aired late Sunday, that the release of the statement isn’t up to him, but instead “it’s up to lawyers, it’s up to everything else.”
“But they’re asking for things that they should never be asking for, that they’ve never asked another president for,” he said. “What they’re doing is a disgrace.”