Opinion | The most disturbing finding from Trump's tax returns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The tax returns also showed that Trump had business dealings in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, South Korea, St. Maarten, St. Vincent, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
54% : The existence of the account had been previously revealed by The New York Times -- but only in 2020, years after it would have become public had Trump released his returns.
48% : We never did find out which foreign governments were paying Trump while he was in office and how much.
45% : And there is extensive documentation of Trump and his company partnering with Russian oligarchs -- a status few reach without the support of Vladimir Putin's government.
44% : The protracted battles delayed discovery in these cases, meaning nobody was able to find out where Trump and his companies were getting their money from.
43% : Even after the courts allowed some of the lawsuits to go forward, by the time discovery began Trump was leaving office.
36% : Last month the House Ways and Means Committee published six years of former President Trump's tax returns -- documents that should have been released years earlier, whether by Trump voluntarily, or by congressional subpoena.
35% : The tax returns reveal that Trump had foreign bank accounts from 2015 to 2020.
29% : The Supreme Court in 2021 dismissed the cases as moot because Trump had left office.
29% : Given Trump's many business connections to China, and allegations that Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win re-election, it would be perfectly reasonable for Congress to want to look into this account.
28% : Putin did not test his business and personal relationship with Trump by invading Ukraine while Trump was president, while the Trump administration's policies often diverged from the American president's praise for his Russian counterpart.
27% : For years, Trump fanned the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama had violated the Constitution's requirement that the president be a natural born citizen.
25% : It was then that Congress should have asked and Trump answered relevant questions about his business dealings in foreign countries that could violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, endanger U.S. national security or both.
6% : We also remember that Trump's own lawyer Michael Cohen detailed how Trump lied about his business dealings in Russia, including a planned Trump Tower in Moscow.

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