Donald Trump and former GOP nominee Mitt Romney engaged in a Sunday clash over tax returns via Twitter.
Trump tweeted Sunday that Romney didn’t release his taxes until September 2012, and only then after he was “humiliated” by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Trump added that Romney was a “bad messenger” for the establishment.
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Mitt Romney didn’t show his tax return until SEPTEMBER 21, 2012, and then only after being humiliated by Harry R! A bad messenger for estab!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2016
Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, quickly responded on Twitter that Trump got his dates wrong, linking to a Washington Post article from January 2012 that he released his returns for 2010 and 2011.
.@realDonaldTrump got it wrong: I released back taxes in Jan ’12, early in primary process–just like he should do. https://t.co/VrLgnEnNI7
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 26, 2016
Primary opponents Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have dogged Trump in recent days to release his returns. Both candidates released years of returns this past weekend. But the call to release the real estate mogul’s taxes originally came from a Romney tweet last week.
Trump said during the last GOP primary debate that he couldn’t release his tax returns because the Internal Revenue Service was auditing him, but the agency said there is no law barring Trump from releasing his returns during an audit.
