Posted on 05/11/2016 4:36:34 PM PDT by mandaladon
BLACKWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton took aim at Donald Trump on taxes Wednesday and quickly found an unlikely ally: 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Clinton noted at a New Jersey campaign rally that Trump had yet to release his tax returns and said he would slash taxes for the nation's wealthiest people if elected president. Hours later, Romney issued a withering post on Facebook, accusing Trump of hiding a damaging revelation in his tax returns.
"There is only one logical explanation for Mr. Trump's refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them," Romney wrote. "Given Mr. Trump's equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it's a bombshell of unusual size."
Clinton and Romney called on Trump to release his tax returns following an Associated Press interview Tuesday, in which the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said he doesn't have an obligation to release the records and won't do so until an audit of his finances is completed.
"There's nothing to learn from them," he said in the interview.
While Trump will likely face Clinton in the general election, the Democratic front-runner took a much softer approach than Romney in New Jersey, which holds a June 7 primary. When a man in the crowd yelled, "What about his tax returns," Clinton said the nominees of both parties typically release them.
Clinton pointed out that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had put out more than three decades of tax records. "You've got to ask yourself why doesn't he want to release it," she said.
The state's governor, Trump ally Chris Christie, said it was "ironic" that Clinton was talking about the issue given her use of a private email address and server while serving as secretary of state.
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Nothing “unlikely” about it at all.
Romney should switch parties.
They both have one thing in common
They both lost against Obama
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
And that is how this should be addressed:
“There is only one logical explanation for Mitt Romney, a failure as a presidential candidate, and Hillary Clinton, a failure as Secy of State to work together on this piece of theater.
THEY ARE ON THE SAME TEAM.”
My thought exactly. That could be Crooked Hillary’s big convention surprise, a “unity ticket to save America from Trump”. It could happen.
Romney, just go away. You’re a loser.
I wonder how much more proof Romney is going to give us that he’s a Democrat operative and that the last election was a complete farce, created to give people the illusion they had a choice.
No bigger loser than Romney..except Paul Ryan
Romney didn’t release his tax returns until September 2012.
RAT (skunk) Willard Romney and his bedmate Ryan
must go.
GO BACK TO KOLOB where you both can pass
ObamaCARE, ObamaTRADE, and your GLOBALISM
to your hearts content, forever.
She operates a money laundering operation with the foundation, we have 30 years of that?
LOL. Yeah, right. That should get the Bernie supporters on her side.
There’s no requirement to release tax returns...Just another pathetic attempt at a “gotcha”..
The coalition of the old.
Romney’s a Douche. Thank you Mr. Trump for crushing this loser.
Lets see full audits of Hillary’s taxes, their foundation’s taxes, and Chelsea’s taxes.
Romney is his father’s son, for sure.
Plus when one is audited you do not open your return to the public. Audits take time. Look at what the IRS did to all the conservative organizations seeking tax exempt status.
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