Trump commanded to hand over tax returns to Congress

This decision appears to have ended a long legal struggle over the delivery of these documents and is seen as a serious legal blow to the former White House chief, the BBC writes.

Although not legally required, each American president, from 1976 except Trump, has published the documents on tax returns.

Trump himself has not yet reacted to that decision, while the Republicans condemned the verdict, describing it as politically motivated.

When he was president, Trump repeatedly said he was in an audit of the Internal Revenue Service, so he couldn't publish tax returns documents, though this institution had said auditing did not prevent publication of data.

The Justice Department decision welcomed the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who was known as one of the most powerful critics of former President Trump during his term. She said: the American people deserve to know the facts of their conflicts and the mini-security of our democracy when they were president. ”