Just three days after he was sworn in as president, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has announced that Donald Trump will not be releasing his tax returns. In an ABC interview Sunday, Conway said: "People didn't care…They voted for him, and let me make this very clear: Most Americans…are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like."
This latest announcement seems to have angered WikiLeaks. The whistleblowing site is now calling on people to help it publish the US president's tax returns.
WikiLeaks was largely viewed as an ally of Trump during his presidential run, given its publication of leaked Democratic emails which were hugely damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign. Julian Assange has denied this, saying: "This is not due to a personal desire to influence the outcome of the election. The Democratic and Republican candidates have both expressed hostility towards whistleblowers."
However on Sunday, when the White House made the announcement that it would not be releasing Trump's tax returns—breaking with 40 years of precedent but not the law—the group made clear that they found this unacceptable.
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