In a statement issued before the broadcast, the White House said: "You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago."

Isn't it illegal for clerks to release the information, but legal for others to publish it?

Anyway, for Swedish people this is all confusing, because the tax office prints a booklet every year with everybody's tax over a certain level. :-)