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Romney: 'Nothing hidden' in withheld tax returns
Mitt Romney insisted in an interview airing Tuesday that there is "nothing hidden" in his tax returns, amid new calls from President Obama and other top Democrats for the Republican presidential challenger to release more details about his financial holdings.
In an interview taped Monday with Radio Iowa, Romney reiterated that his holdings were kept in a blind trust and that he had abided by all U.S. tax laws.
"I don't manage them. I don't even know where they are," Romney said. "That trustee follows all U.S. laws. All the taxes are paid, as appropriate. All of them have been reported to the government. There's nothing hidden there."
“What’s important, if you are running for president, is that the American people know who you are and what you’ve done, and that you’re an open book,” President Obama said Tuesday in an interview with New Hampshire television station WMUR. “And that’s been true of every presidential candidate dating all the way back to Mitt Romney’s father.”
In speech excerpts provided by the Obama campaign of Vice President Biden's prepared remarks to the National Council of La Raza's annual meeting in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the vice president again plans to hammer Romney on the issue.
"When his father, George Romney, was a candidate for President in 1968, he released 12 years of tax returns because, as he said, 'One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show,' " Biden plans to say. "His son has released one year of his tax returns. Making a lie of the old adage: Like father, like son."
Romney, however, said in the interview with Radio Iowa that the president was attempting to distract from more substantive issues.
"I understand the president's going to try to do anything he can to divert attention from the fact that his jobs record is weak and he has no plan to make things better," Romney said.
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