Mitt Romney lashed back at Harry Reid on Thursday in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, saying the Senate majority leader needs to “put up or shut up” after airing allegations about Romney’s taxes.
Reid, a Nevada Democrat, first raised eyebrows Tuesday by saying in a news interview that someone had told him Romney went 10 years without paying taxes. He would only identify his source as an investor in Romney’s former venture capital firm, Bain Capital, and he acknowledged, “I’m not certain” it’s true.
That didn’t stop Reid from taking to the Senate floor Thursday to accuse the Republican presidential candidate again of paying no taxes, part of a broader Democratic attack on Romney for declining to release more than two years of tax documents.
“The word’s out that he hasn’t paid any taxes for 10 years,” Reid said. “Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn’t.”
But Romney forcefully denied Reid’s allegations on Hannity’s radio show Thursday.
“Harry’s going to have to describe who it is he spoke with, because, of course, that is totally and completely wrong,” Romney said. “It’s untrue, dishonest and inaccurate. It’s wrong.
“So, I’m looking forward to have Harry reveal his sources, and we will probably find out it’s the White House.”
Romney’s campaign earlier rejected the majority leader’s statement as “shameful.”
Reid also raised eyebrows for invoking Romney’s late father, himself a one-time presidential candidate.
“His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son,” Reid told the Huffington Post.
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Reid should be shown the door. He is one of the biggest tax and spend guys around.
First of all, Reid’s source probably doesn’t exist. Second, he claims this source was an investor at Bain. In other words, an outsider, a client, someone who is in no position to see any internal documents of the firm. Third, even a Bain insider would have no way of knowing how much Romney’s taxes came to, even when he was working there. Fourth, Romney hasn’t even been at Bain for the last 10 years. So how is this imaginary source supposed to know this? The whole thing is ridiculous.
Meanwhile Reid keeps his own tax return well hidden, and there are some very serious questions about how he became so rich. He made huge profits on some very strange real estate transactions with some sketchy characters.
WHOOOOOO!!!!!! One place you NEVER go in politics, is to the candidates family. NEVER bring them up in anything. That was one thing that helped John Kerry lose in 04. At a Vice Presidential Debate, John Edwards made a comment about Dick Cheney’s daughter. A lot of people were extremely upset about it.
The word’s out that Harry Reid is a crook who has swindled BILLIONS of dollars from the US taxpayers.