Sen. Mitt Romney R-Utah, said Sunday that President Trump ought to release his tax returns but also noted it was “moronic” for congressional Democrats to try to force him to comply.
“I’d like the president to follow through and show his tax returns. He said he would, I think it was on the ‘Today’ show, he said he would be happy to release his returns. So I wish he’d do that. But I have to also tell you, I think the Democrats are just playing along his handbook, which is going after his tax returns through a legislative action is moronic,” Romney, who has long called for Trump to release the forms, told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
This was overreach on the Democrats’ part, he said. “That’s not going to happen. The courts are not going to say that you can compel a person running for office to release their tax returns. So he’s going to win this victory. He wins them time after time,” Romney added.
The House Ways and Means Committee submitted a request for Trump’s tax returns on Wednesday. Trump reacted to the news by repeating that he is under audit and that “until such time as I’m not under audit, I would not be inclined to” cooperate with the request.
Romney said the Democrats are going too far on several fronts, citing the environmentalist Green New Deal proposal and efforts to go beyond the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. “These things are just nonstarters and I think the Democratic Party is finding itself in a real difficult position with those kinds of positions,” he said.
