It underscores the question right now: Can this IRS today do this job?

And we have to assume that it can, because there is no backstop.

Nixon released his returns in response to these sorts of questions," Thorndike toldCNNin 2017.

Donald Trump at the White House

The goal: to make more money out of the inheritance his family left for him.

The president was given the opportunity to respond to the report and he did through his lawyer Charles J.

There was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone.

Donald, Ivana, Fred, Mary Trump

The facts upon which The Times bases its false allegations are extremely inaccurate."

The walls are closing in and he is throwing anything against the wall that he thinks will stick.

I think they call that journalism."

Donald Trump looking defiant

Pile of New York Times