One of the most popular White House website pages is a petition seeking Trump's tax returns
As President Donald Trump assumes the oval office, an anti-Trump petition is climbing up the popularity charts on whitehouse.gov.
The second-most popular page on the site as of this writing is a petition calling for the release of Trump's tax returns, according to an analytics website that tracks the webpages of U.S. federal government agencies.
As of this writing, again, around 7,500 people were on the petition's page, and the petition was approaching 3,000 signatures. The only page eclipsing the petition is the White House's home page.
"The unprecedented economic conflicts of this administration need to be visible to the American people," the petition reads. This, it says, includes "any pertinent documentation which can reveal the foreign influences and financial interests which may put Donald Trump in conflict with the emoluments clause of the Constitution."
Trump has not released his tax returns, a move seen by many Americans as concealing how his finances may be tied up in countries around the world, and preventing Americans from knowing to whom their president owes money. Some are also arguing it prevents Americans and the rest of the world from understanding the extent of the president's conflicts of interest.
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