This post has been updated.
After former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday called on Donald Trump to release his tax returns, the real estate mogul indicated that he would consider doing so, but said he was in “no rush.”
During an interview on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked Trump why he won’t simply release his tax returns quickly.
“Because my returns are extremely complex and I’ll make a determination at the right time,” Trump responded. “I’m in no rush to do it. Nobody’s been bringing it up, except for Mitt Romney, and the reason he brings it up is that he lost in the last election, and lost very, very badly.”
Trump also complained that he gets “audited every single year” unlike “everybody else.”
He then told Cooper that he’ll “make a determination over the next couple of months” on whether to release his tax returns.
Cooper asked if that meant Trump would definitely release them.
“No,” Trump replied. “I’ll make a determination.”
In an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, Romney urged Trump to release his tax returns.
“Frankly, I think we have good reason to believe that there’s a bombshell in Donald Trump’s taxes,” Romney said on Fox News. “Either he’s not as anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is or he hasn’t been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay, or perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the vets or to the disabled like he’s been telling us he’s been doing.”
Trump on Wednesday said that “there is no bombshell at all other than I pay a lot of tax and the government wastes the money,” according to CNN.
The Republican presidential candidate also responded to Romney on Twitter.
Mitt Romney,who totally blew an election that should have been won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough guy
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2016
When Mitt Romney asked me for my endorsement last time around, he was so awkward and goofy that we all should have known he could not win!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2016
Mitt Romney, who was one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics, is now pushing me on tax returns. Dope!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2016
Watch Trump’s interview on CNN:
