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Romney: There's a 'bombshell' in Trump's tax returns

February 24, 2016, 04:51 pm
By Rebecca Savransky

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Mitt Romney is going after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for not yet releasing his taxes.

"Frankly, I think we have a good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's taxes," the 2012 GOP nominee told Fox News on Wednesday.

"I think there's something there. Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is or he hasn't been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay, or perhaps he hasn't been giving money to the vets or to the disabled like he's been telling us he's doing."

Romney said it's suspicious that every time Trump is asked about his taxes, he "dodges" and "delays."

He added that Trump likes to "tell people how well he's done," but has not yet let people look at his taxes.

"We're talking about taxes already filed, back taxes. And my back taxes, when I ran in 2012, my back taxes I put out in January of 2012," he said.

Trump shot back on Twitter, mocking Romney’s defeat in the 2012 election.

Mitt Romney,who totally blew an election that should have been won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough guy
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2016

Romney said he is sensitive to the tax issue because it affected his own run for the White House.

"They were all over me for my taxes, became a big issue, but I put my taxes out in January of 2012 and that gave people a chance to digest it and decide whether I was going to be the nominee or not," he said.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lobbed similar attacks at Romney during his 2012 campaign.

Reid insinuated that Romney wasn't releasing his tax returns because they showed him paying a very low effective tax rate.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/270650-romney-theres-a-bombshell-in-trumps-tax-returns