NYC Gazette

The tax returns of former President Donald Trump have finally been turned over to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. after years of legal wrangling.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Vance and has said that it will not block the subpoena of Trump’s tax records. Danny Frost, Vance’s spokesperson confirmed that the office will serve a subpoena to Mazars USA, which is Donald Trump’s accounting firm.

Chief Justice Roberts said that the public has the right to know about the former president’s tax records and if he indeed inflated and deflated his assets, as the D.A.'s office suspects. Roberts said, “In our judicial system, the public has 'a right to every man’s evidence.' Since the earliest days of the Republic, ‘every man’ has included the president of the United States.”

Trump’s attorneys, however, are arguing that the district attorney's office was overreaching and had no right to sequester the former president’s tax records. They also said that they will continue to prevent Trump’s records from falling into Vance’s hands.

The former president made it clear during his term and after it that forcing him to show his tax records is just a Democratic ploy to undermine him. He said that it was a “witch hunt” and that of all the presidents, he was treated the worst.