Mitt Romney’s son Matt makes major gaffe on campaign trail; brother cuts him off
Matt Romney with his father
Matt says Mitt will show tax records when Obama shows birth certificate
By Nina Mandell / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, December 30 2011, 3:29 PM
Matt Romney may not want to count on inheriting his dad's millions.
Mitt Romney's son stole a bit of the news cycle on Friday after he joked to a group of seniors in New Hampshire that his dad would release his tax records when President Obama released his birth certificate.
"He has not said that he will not do it, he has also not said that he will. I think it's a matter of time until that issue comes up because I think everybody has to get a chance to do that. And so I don't know the answer to that, I'm not sure if he knows the answer to that. But he'll do everything that he needs to," Matt Romney said, according to Patch.com.
"He's certainly not afraid of anything, not hiding anything — you know, I heard someone suggest the other day that as soon as Obama releases his grades and birth certificate and sort of a long list of things, then maybe he'd do it. That was just a —"
Then, Matt's brother Tagg quickly cut in to say, "That was not my dad saying that."
Matt quickly backtracked saying, "No, no no, that was just a suggestion."
The slip is an especially embarrassing one for the Romney campaign, which has tried to stay above the conspiracy theories in the party that the President was not born in the United States.
The President released a copy of his full-form birth certificate this year after needling about the issue from Donald Trump and other outspoken conservatives.
Romney, as have most mainstream Republicans, has never questioned if the President was born in the United States.
Last week he said he wasn’t sure he was going to release his tax forms.
“I don’t intend to release the tax returns, I don’t,” Romney said on MSNBC, The New York Times pointed out.
Obama's campaign team was quick to pounce on the slip-up on its Twitter account.
"Mitt Romney's son thinks President Obama should release his birth certificate. Guess he doesn't have one of our mugs?" they tweeted, linking up to a Made in the USA mug, with Obama's birth certificate on the back.
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