Matthews: Cruz Questioning Trump Taxes Is McCarthyite; No Such Complaint When Reid Questioned Romney on Senate Floor

Ken Shepherd | February 26, 2016
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Read more at NewsBusters | Last night on a special post-debate edition of Hardball, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews railed against Ted Cruz for his supposedly McCarthyite attacks on Donald Trump vis-a-vis his undisclosed tax returns. Yet in August 2012 after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) insisted on the Senate floor that an unnamed source told him Romney hadn't paid taxes in a decade, Matthews led his program with the charge and gave it credence.