Donald Trump’s tax returns can be turned over to New York prosecutors, US Supreme Court rules

In a significant defeat for former president Donald Trump, the United States Supreme Court declined to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York prosecutor.

The court’s action is the culmination of a lengthy legal battle that had already reached the nation’s highest court once before.

Mr Trump’s tax records will not become public as part of the prosecutor’s criminal investigation, but the court’s action is a blow to Mr Trump, who long fought on so many fronts to keep…