Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid revived his call for Mitt Romney to release more tax returns, after the former GOP presidential nominee started using the issue to hit Donald Trump.
“All I know, I can’t imagine Romney having the gall coming after anybody’s returns,” Reid told CNN. “Let’s look at his.”
Reid spent much of the 2012 election cycle demanding Romney release more than the two years of tax returns he had previously published, and suggesting that the multimillionaire presidential hopeful had avoided paying taxes for a decade. Four years later, Romney is calling for Trump to release his tax returns.
Romney suggested Wednesday that Trump may be lying about his net wealth, his charitable giving or even his tax rate. “I think, frankly, we have good reason to believe that there’s a bombshell in Donald Trump’s taxes,” Romney said on Fox.
Trump has responded with a torrent of angry tweets. “Mitt Romney, who was one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics, is now pushing me on tax returns,” he posted to his social media account. “Dope!”
Romney seems perfectly comfortable in a Twitter flame war. “Methinks the Donald doth protest too much. Show voters your back taxes, @realDonaldTrump,” he replied, with the hashtag “WhatIsHeHiding.”
Reid, for his part, has never apologized for stoking rumors about Romney. “They can call it whatever they want,” he said last March. “Romney didn’t win, did he?”
