Rush Limbaugh speculated that Mitt Romney's attack on Donald Trump's taxes might be an attempt to shut down Republicans who want to endorse Trump for president.
"What I think Romney's doing, is I think Romney is freezing endorsements for Trump," Limbaugh said on his show Thursday. "I think that in the bowels of the Republican establishment they're very worried that a bunch of Republicans are on the verge of endorsing Trump."
Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, on Wednesday told
Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto he believes Trump won't release his past taxes because there's a "bombshell" in them that show "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."
If Limbaugh is right, the move wasn't 100 percent successful. New York Rep. Chris Collins announced
his endorsement of Trump on Wednesday, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to do so.
There's also a chance, Limbaugh added, that Romney thinks there actually might be something in Trump's taxes that would hurt him.
"There are people that don't believe Trump's worth what he says he's worth. There are people that don't believe Trump has accomplished half of what he says he accomplished in business," he said. "There are people that think that he's done all this – his lifestyle and business – on a wing and a prayer, and that the only reason he gets away with it is the banks are so invested in him by way of loans that they can't foreclose on him without taking themselves down."
Trump fired back on Twitter, calling Romney a "dope" and said he should just go ahead and endorse Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
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