Posted on 05/16/2013 2:13:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — During the 2012 presidential campaign, Harry Reid claimed to have intimate knowledge of what was secretly inside Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s tax returns.
As President Obama’s campaign slammed Romney nearly every day for not releasing more tax returns, the Senate majority leader repeatedly made the unsubstantiated claim that, at one point in his life, Romney hadn’t paid taxes for almost a decade.
He even did so from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
“The word’s out that he hasn’t paid any taxes for 10 years,” the Nevada Democrat claimed on the floor in August. “Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn’t.”
It made big news at the time, but Reid’s old accusations are popping back up now that it’s been revealed that the IRS has been targeting conservative groups and in some cases, reportedly leaking their tax information.
Knowing that, could someone at the IRS have leaked Romney’s tax information to Reid? At the time, Reid claimed he learned of Romney’s tax background from someone who had once been an investor in Romney’s firm, though he wouldn’t say who.
Since the new IRS scandal broke, Republicans have found the question of who Reid got his information from — and from where — intriguing.
“We all wondered how Harry Reid had Mitt Romney’s taxes,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski told The Daily Caller. “The question is, will he call for a full investigation into the IRS?”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“But if Mitt Romney really did pay no income taxes for ten years, he had no business running for president, so I assumed Harry Reid didn’t know what he was talking about...but if the RNC did believe Reid and supported Romney anyway they’re a bigger problem than anybody dreamed.”
if Romney hadn’t paid his taxes for 10 years, the IRS would have been all over him with audits based on the recent revelations regarding how the IRS has behaved toward conservative groups applying for tax exempt status before the 2012 elections. why would the RNC believe anything Hoary Reid had to say?
“Why doesn’t he sue Reid? Even if nothing comes from it and Reid is never put under oath, he’ll have to at least waste money on legal representation.Romney is too cowardly to pursue this as he didn’t bother during the election.”
i may be wrong, but since Reid made these accusations on the Senate floor, i believe he has immunity from any sort of legal action regarding what he says in that chamber.
That is probably true. But when do the accusations become actionable if, as we’ve seen, there are illegal activities that could have contributed to Reid’s statement?
Wouldn’t that make Senator Reid an accessory to a felony?
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