Throughout the recent presidential election, there were numerous attacks on Donald Trump’s integrity and character from the opposing side. However, his largest assumed legal offense was that of tax evasion, and eye brows were further raised when he refused to make his financial records public. Just last month, two veteran reporters were able to get their hands on president Trump’s 2005 tax return, and they swiftly leaked them to the world. In an investigative piece written by Richard Wolffe and published by The Guardian, Wolffe discusses the impact of the release of the POTUS’s tax returns. He was able to write this article due to the work of David Cay Johnston and Rachel Maddow, the reporters responsible for leaking the returns. As stated by Wolffe, “The emergence of the returns itself blows a couple holes in the beautiful wall the White House has built to protect the president’s dubious finances.” The subsequent statements lashing out at Johnston and Maddow from the White House have made people further beg the question, “What are they trying to hide?” Although the leak is a meager stride toward discovering the truth about Donald Trump’s finances, it’s an enormous stride for investigative journalism.