Thousands of protesters gathered in cities across the United States to pressure President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, a move of transparency he has refused to make.
"Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday".
Demonstrators in dozens of US cities and towns, including Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Palm Beach, where Trump was spending Easter Weekend at his resort Mar-a-Lago, marched on Saturday to demand Trump release his tax returns.
Thousands of protesters gathered across the US on Saturday for the Tax March calling Trump release his taxes.
As a candidate, Trump declined to voluntarily release his tax returns - a practice followed by other presidential hopefuls since the 1970s - claiming he couldn't do so because he was under audit. She said she was concerned that conflicts of interest in Trump's tax returns might foreshadow selfish interests in his tax reform policies.
For decades, U.S. presidents and presidential candidates have released their tax returns voluntarily - there is no legal requirement to do so.
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Trump had said he was under audit and would release the returns after the IRS finished his audit.
The Tax Day protesters were not paid.
The Trump campaign then insisted that the public didn't care about the documents, which they claimed only interested journalists and politicians. It has been retweeted more than 21,000 times.
The rally here in Orlando on Saturday morning drew several hundred people who marched around Lake Eola, past Senator Bill Nelson's office and ending at his Republican colleague, Senator Marco Rubio's office. "We're here to say we care", said Singh.
To organizers, Trump's reaction indicated that the protests successfully conveyed their message.
Recent public-opinion surveys have estimated up to three-quarters of all Americans feel they should be able to review the tax records of Trump, a real-estate developer and entrepreneur who has estimated his net worth at $10 billion. They showed Trump paid $38 million in taxes on more than $150 million in income.
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