When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went to the floor of the U.S. Congress and accused GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney of not paying any taxes at all for the past 10 years in 2012, he knew he was lying—though, at the time, he claimed he knew because “someone told him.” The Washington Post,
“And yet, the clip above shows Reid, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, not only refusing to apologize for the claim but defending it — in a very weird way.
“Romney didn’t win, did he?” Reid said in response to Bash’s question of whether he regretted what he had said about Romney.
“Think about that logic for a minute. What Reid is saying is that it’s entirely immaterial whether what he said about Romney and his taxes was true. All that mattered was that Romney didn’t win.”
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