WASHINGTON — In his news conference on Wednesday, President-elect Donald J. Trump claimed that the American public did not care that he had not released his tax returns, as has been routine for every presidential nominee since Watergate. He could not be more wrong. When I asked users on Twitter, the president-elect's favored megaphone, to retweet if they cared about Mr. Trump's tax returns, within hours more than 79,000 people responded.
The reason is simple. Without these returns, Americans cannot know whether he is using the presidency to enrich himself and his family. Americans won't know whether a policy he proposes primarily benefits steelworkers in Pennsylvania or lines his own pocket.
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