It’s a huge wonder that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s tax returns filed year-after-year by President Donald J. Trump before and during his presidency remain a secret. Since the president legally refuses to release his tax filings you’d think that someone somewhere would figure out how to steal or hack Trump’s personal and business tax returns from deep inside the IRS.

Just imagine what would happen if a successful IRS thief or leaker put the long-sought-after Trump tax returns up for sale to the highest bidder. Who would possibly want to bid on Trump’s tax returns? Mainstream media would pay big money – $-Millions-$ — to break the story of Trump’s tax returns. So would Washington Democrats who have slush funds for under-the-table payouts no matter how illegal it would be. Remember all those congressional sex scandals that got paid off by under-the-table slush money that at last count topped $17-million.

Before President Trump came ‘down the escalator’ and announced he would be running for president in 2016 nobody gave a damn about his tax returns. He was just another real estate rich guy that got rich by, among other things, taking advantage of every single tax break and loop hole known to exist by the shrewdest and best tax attorneys money could buy.

Private citizen Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have never been charged with any felonious tax violations of IRS tax laws. If anyone has been scrutinized by IRS investigators it’s Trump — probably more than anyone ever has been.

Now that Trump is the president of the United States of America and nothing to date that the Democrats, the former ‘deep state’ FBI and mainstream media have thrown at him, Trump’s detractors are no closer to removing Trump from office since the day he took office.

This last effort of going after Trump’s tax returns are clearly a last ditch struggle that ultimately will be settled by the courts using existing laws that protect the privacy of private citizen’s tax returns from unauthorized release.

Last week — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, formally requested in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to provide him with six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns covering the years 2013 to 2018. Neal is only one of three congressional officials authorized under current law to request IRS tax returns from individuals without their permission. Neal is also demanding Trump’s tax returns be delivered to him by April 10th.

Reacting to Neal’s request, President Trump’s Acting Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney called his request a “political stunt.”

Mulvaney predicted that no matter how hard Neal and others try to gain access to Trumps tax returns they will not be successful.

“That is not going to happen and they know it … Oh, no, never … ,” Mulvaney said in a Fox News Sunday interview.

Many times President Trump has stated that his tax returns are “under audit” by the IRS and he will not release his taxes while “under audit.” No doubt Trump’s tax returns are complex, but if Trump has been “under audit” by the IRS for years as he claims the IRS has not taken any negative actions toward Trump or his tax attorneys claiming any kind of fraud or tax evasion on the president’s part.

The IRS would have no reason to protect President Trump. If any wrong doing on the part of Trump’s tax team had been detected by the IRS they would present the evidence but there is no evidence. What all this boils down to is the voters see the haters doing nothing for real American citizens.

On Jan. 21, 2025 – the day after President Trump leaves office — nobody will give a damn about Trump’s tax returns.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.