Orrin Hatch is ‘Happy to Look Into’ Trump’s Alleged Fraud, ‘May Have to Give Up’ Tax Returns

With all the renewed commotion about Donald Trump‘s financial history, Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) says he’d be willing to review the president’s tax returns.

CNN’s Manu Raju spoke to Hatch this week and asked what he thought about the New York Times‘ deep dive into the Trump family’s tax records and confidential financial documents. The report’s determination overall was that Trump and his sibling committed several year’s worth of tax evasion and fraudulent schemes to drastically increase their inherited wealth from the president’s father.

“It’s funny they wouldn’t bring that up by the election,” said Hatch. “I’d be happy to look into it. But right now, I don’t know enough about it.”

Hatch told Raju he wouldn’t want to disclose his tax records if he was Trump, but the senator also said the president “may have to” release them eventually.

Trump has long been criticized for breaking with modern precedent and not releasing his returns during the 2016 election.

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