Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid charged Tuesday that Donald Trump is refusing to release his tax returns because they would show that Trump is a “spoiled, rich brat.”
“His tax returns would show he isn’t the rich guy he thinks he is,” said Reid, D-Nev., on the Senate floor. “Tax returns would show that he’s a spoiled, rich brat who inherited his daddy’s money and hasn’t done so well with it.”
“With $14 million dollars, he hasn’t done that well,” Reid added. “That’s how much his dad gave him.”
Reid also slammed Trump for saying during Monday’s debate that not paying taxes makes him “smart.”
“So what does that make the rest of us?” Reid said. “Suckers? Unintelligent? Dumb? If he’s smart, does that make us dumb if we pay our taxes?”
Reid said it’s clear from Trump’s comments that Trump thinks paying taxes is a “fool’s errand.”
“We know that refusing to pay his taxes makes him, as we’ve come to learn, a scam artist,” he said. “He’s good at that.”
Reid’s attack is similar to the one he lobbed at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, when he said an anonymous source told him that Romney doesn’t pay any taxes. He later admitted his charge was unfounded, but said he had no regrets for making it.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, criticized Reid immediately after his remarks by saying Democrats must be so lacking in confidence that Hillary Clinton can win that Reid “insists on coming to the floor every day that we’re in session and trying to assist her.”
