TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The President’s tax returns and White House visitor logs — both public information under the previous administration — will remain private under President Donald Trump.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday dealt another blow to transparency advocates, announcing that Trump’s 2016 tax returns are under audit and therefore would not be released, and defended the White House’s decision to reverse an Obama administration initiative and make White House visitor logs private.
“They are,” Spicer said of the 2016 tax returns being under audit.
Moments later, he added: “We’re under the same audit that existed, and so nothing has changed.”
-Jeremy Diamond, “Spicer defends White House’s lack of transparency,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 17, 2017 4:15pm