HERE COMES MITT ROMNEY, HE SLAMS DONALD TRUMP WITH A CHAIR
OVER THE HEAD!
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS TRYING TO STRIKE BACK AGAINST
DONALD TRUMP, THEY SENT MITT ROMNEY OUT THERE, AND HE
WILL MAKE A VERY IRONIC ATTACK.
SOUTH CAROLINA BECAME THE FIRST STATE WITH BODY CAMERAS --
NOT REMOTELY CLOSE.
VIDEO 1.
DONALD TRUMP AND MARCO RUBIO AND TED CRUZ HAVE NOT SHOWN US
THEIR BACK TAXES, AND THIS WAS AN ISSUE IN MY CAMPAIGN.
THIS
WILL GIVE US A REAL SENSE OF WHETHER THESE PEOPLE ARE ON THE
UP AND UP AND WHETHER THEY HAVE BEEN TELLING US THINGS ABOUT
THEMSELVES THAT ARE TRUE OR NOT.
I THINK FRANKLY WE HAVE GOOD
REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A BOMBSHELL IN DONALD
TRUMP'S TAXES.
WHAT YOU MEAN?
I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING THERE, EITHER HE IS NOT ANYWHERE
NEAR AS WEALTHY AS HE SAYS, OR HE HASN'T BEEN PAYING THE KIND
OF TAXES WE WOULD EXPECT, OR PERHAPS HE HAS NOT BEEN GIVING
MONEY TO THE VETS OR TO THE DISABLED LIKE HE HAS BEEN
TELLING US HE HAS BEEN DOING, AND I THINK -- THE REASON I
THINK THERE IS A BOMBSHELL IN THERE IS BECAUSE EVERY TIME HE
IS ASKED ABOUT HIS TAXES HE DODGES AND DELAYS AND SAYS WE
ARE WORKING ON IT.
WE COULD FIND HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYWHERE NEAR AS
MUCH INCOME AS WE THINK YOU MIGHT, WITH A $10
BILLION INCOME, OR HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY TAXES, OR LOW TAXES.
ARE YOU SAYING YOU THINK HE IS WORTH SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN THAT?
I DON'T KNOW.
I'M JUST SAYING THE FACT THAT HE IS AGGRESSIVE
IN AVOIDING ANY DISCUSSION OF HIS TAXES AND IS NOT WILLING TO
PUT THEM OUT SO FAR SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS SOMETHING IN THERE
THAT HE DOESN'T WANT US TO SEE.
HE LIKES TO TELL PEOPLE HOW WELL
HE HAS DONE -- WHY ISN'T HE WILLING TO LET US LOOK AT THE
TAX RETURNS?
THIS WAS AN ISSUE IN MY CAMPAIGN, THAT IS WHY I'M SO
SENSITIVE TO IT.
THAT MIGHT BE THE CASE.
THIS IS REALLY WEIRD, BECAUSE THE
DEMOCRATS ATTACKED MITT ROMNEY FOR NOT RELEASING HIS TAX
RETURNS, AND THEY SAID VERY SIMILAR THINGS ABOUT HIM, AND HE
FINALLY RELEASED A SMIDGEN OF THEM, ONE YEAR OF ACTUAL TAXES,
AND WE FOUND OUT HE WAS ONLY PAYING LIKE 15%.
ISN'T THAT
SICK?
THE THEORETICAL TOP TAX RATE AT THAT TIME IS 35%, THEN
YOU HAVE LOCAL AND STATE TAXES, THE TOP 1% IS ALWAYS COMPLAINING
ABOUT TAXES -- YOU ARE NOT PAYING IT.
HE WAS ONLY PAYING
15%, THAT IS LESS THAN MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO WORK
HARD AND ARE IN THEORETICALLY MUCH LOWER BRACKETS, BUT THEY
FIND A THOUSAND LOOPHOLES.
HE HAS MONEY IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS.
THEY FIND THE MOST IRONIC GUY TO ATTACK DONALD TRUMP ON THIS
ISSUE, AND HE IS THINKING, WHAT ABOUT DONALD'S TAXES?
IS HE
RIGHT THAT THERE COULD BE A BOMBSHELL IN THERE?
OF COURSE.
COULD DONALD TRUMP BE LYING ABOUT HIS TAXES?
I WOULD BE
SHOCKED IF HE WASN'T LYING.
MAYBE HE DOESN'T HAVE AS MUCH
MONEY, MAYBE HE DOESN'T PAY AS MUCH TAXES, MAYBE HE IS NOT
GIVING AS MUCH MONEY TO THE VETS.
I WOULD SAY ALL THREE.
SO HOW WOULD DONALD RESPOND TO THIS?
WHEN DO WE GET TAX RETURNS, BECAUSE MITT ROMNEY GOT KILLED
ON THIS FOUR YEARS AGO?
WE WILL GET THEM OUT AT SOME POINT PROBABLY.
I TOLD MY PEOPLE
THE OTHER DAY, START LOOKING AT IT.
I HAVE VERY COMPLEX PAPERS,
IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS.
WE HAVE COMPLEX PAPERS, WE ARE WORKING ON IT.
WILL WE GET THEM SOON?
DO YOU THINK?
I DON'T KNOW, I WILL HAVE TO ASK MY ACCOUNTING PEOPLE.
VERY COMPLICATED, WE ARE WORKING ON IT.
SMALL MINDS LIKE
YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.
YOU NEED A LARGE MIND LIKE DONALD
TRUMP.
MY GUESS IS HIS TAX PAPERS ARE A MESS, NOTHING BUT A
MESS.
THAT WAS HIS CALM WAY OF EVADING.
ON TWITTER HE WILL NOT
BE AS CALM.
HE SAYS ABOUT ROMNEY --
THAT IS THE DONALD TRUMP WE KNOW AND KIND OF DESPISE.
THEN
HE WENT ON TO SAY --
THAT IS KIND OF A WEIRD THING
TO SAY.
THIS ISSUE JUST GOT
BROUGHT UP BY AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
THE GUY WHO WAS YOUR LAST PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.
NOBODY
ELSE IS BRINGING IT UP.
LET'S GO TO THE PRESS AND SEE IF WE CAN
FIND SOMEONE PARROTING THAT SAME EXACT TALKING POINT ON
BEHALF OF DONALD TRUMP?
MY ATTITUDE TOWARD THIS IS THE SAME ATTITUDE I HAD TOWARD
HILLARY, AND EVERYONE DISAGREED WITH ME.
IF REPUBLICANS WANT TO
RELEASE THEIR SPEECHES, THEN I WILL.
WITH TRUMP, I WILL SAY
THE SAME, IF EVERYBODY WANTS TO RELEASE THEIR TAXES, I WILL
RELEASE THEM.
BUT WHY SHOULD I?
MITT ROMNEY'S TAXES WERE
RELEVANT BECAUSE PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE IF HE PAID 15 OR 14%.
WHY
ARE DONALD TRUMP'S TAXES RELEVANT OTHER THAN SO PEOPLE
CAN DIG THROUGH THEM WHO HAVE BEEN SAYING HE IS NOT WORTH $10
BILLION, AND LOOK THROUGH THEM FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS?
FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASON YOU SAID, PEOPLE WANT TO
FIND OUT IF HE'S PAYING ANY TAXES.
THAT HASN'T BEEN AN ISSUE WITH DONALD TRUMP.
I THINK IT IS AN ISSUE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS.
I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY BRING IT UP.
I'M BRINGING IT UP.
I HAVE HEARD A LOT OF RICH PEOPLE IN NEW YORK CITY
SNIFF THAT HE IS NOT WORTH 10 BILLION.
DONALD TRUMP SAYS I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY BRING IT UP.
SCARBOROUGH SAYS I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY BRING IT UP.
SCARBOROUGH
IS TOTALLY NEUTRAL HERE.
PERHAPS HE SHOULD DO MORE TOWN HALLS
WHERE HE IS "INTERVIEWING," "QUESTIONING," "CHALLENGING" DONALD
TRUMP.
I KNOW, DUDE, YOU WANT TO BE HIS VICE PRESIDENT.
JUST
BRING IT DOWN LIKE 100 NOTCHES AND YOU WOULD STILL BE MASSIVELY
BIASED IN FAVOR OF DONALD TRUMP.
IT IS KIND OF EMBARRASSING WHEN
YOU TAKE TALKING POINTS FROM HIS CAMPAIGN AND REPEAT THEM ON AIR.
HE IS NOT ALONE, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA ARE DONALD
TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
UNSURPRISINGLY, LEW DOBBS, WHO HAS BEEN ON THE WARPATH AGAINST
IMMIGRANTS FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, COMES TO HIS DEFENSE.
THERE IS NO BETTER MEASURE OF THE ELITES' DESPERATION THAN FOR
THEM TO SEND IN MITT ROMNEY AS THEIR HATCHET MAN.
DOESN'T SOUND
RIGHT, DOES IT?
HE WAS A POOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN 2012,
AND HE HAS CERTAINLY SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A LOUSY POLITICAL
HATCHET MAN IN 2016.
ROMNEY HAS DONE ENOUGH FOR THE GOP, DOESN'T IT SEEM SO TO YOU?
WHAT IS THAT TALKING POINT I'M GETTING FROM THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN?
ROMNEY IS A HATCHET MAN.
POOR CANDIDATE, VERY POOR CANDIDATE.
HATCHET MAN.
NICELY DONE, LEW.
THE REASON LEW DOBBS IS SUCH AN
ADVOCATE OF DONALD TRUMP IS BECAUSE OF A MOMENT LIKE THIS TODAY
IN THE PRESS, OUT OF IOWA.
WE FOUND OUT THERE IS A HIGH SCHOOL
CALLED PERRY HIGH, IT IS DISPROPORTIONATELY RACIALLY
DIVERSE IN IOWA, IOWA IS LARGELY WHITE, BUT IN THAT HIGH SCHOOL,
LOTS OF LATINOS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, BUT
WITH WHEN THEY WERE PLAYING BASKETBALL AGAINST ANOTHER TEAM,
AND THIS IS CONFIRMED BY LOCAL NEWS, THE OTHER TEAMS STARTED
CHANTING "TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP."
FASCISM, IT IS RIGHT HERE IN
AMERICA.
AND SUSAN SARANDON, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, PUT IT BEST
WHEN SHE WAS TALKING TO OUR REPORTER, JORDAN -- SHE SAID,
TRUMP HAS NORMALIZED RACISM.
THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON.
I
GUESS TO THE CREDIT OF THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT THEY
ARE BEGINNING TO FIGHT BACK, AND REPUBLICANS KNOW HOW TO FIGHT
DIRTY, SO THEY ARE LIKE, HEY, IF THEY WENT AFTER ROMNEY ON HIS
TAXES AND IT HURT HIM, MAYBE WE WILL GET TRUMP IN THE SAME WAY.
WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER, HERE COMES
A LITTLE BIT OF EMPIRE STRIKING BACK AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.