DOJ: Bare Don taxes

A top Justice Department official on Friday told the Treasury Department to give copies of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Dawn Johnsen, of the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, wrote in a memo that the House Ways and Means Committee’s “principal stated objective of assessing the IRS’s presidential audit program” is a “plainly legitimate area for congressional inquiry.”

Treasury “must comply,” Johnsen wrote — but the decision isn’t necessarily the final word.