{"id":10485,"date":"2019-10-08T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T08:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T08:07:39","slug":"trump-loses-court-case-to-keep-tax-return-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10485","title":{"rendered":"Trump Loses Court Case to Keep Tax Return Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A judge has ordered US President Donald Trump to hand over eight years of his tax returns to New York investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The judge rejected arguments by the president&#8217;s lawyers that Mr Trump enjoyed total immunity while in office.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling helps an investigation into hush money paid to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said in a court filing that every US president since Jimmy Carter had voluntarily released his tax returns before or upon taking office.<\/p>\n<p>In his 75-page decision on Monday, Judge Victor Marrero called the president&#8217;s claim of immunity &#8220;repugnant to the nation&#8217;s governmental structure and constitutional values&#8221;, writing that he would not allow a &#8220;categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The president tweeted about the ruling on Monday, claiming that Democrats were &#8220;pushing local New York City and State Democrat prosecutors to go get President Trump&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ordered US President Donald Trump to hand over eight years of his tax returns to New York investigators. The judge rejected arguments by the president&#8217;s lawyers that Mr Trump enjoyed total immunity while in office. The ruling helps an investigation into hush money paid to two women who claim they had affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10518,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/10518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}