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Newt 2012

"Blind Trust Bluff" +
  0:48 web video from Jan. 29, 2012.

[timer SFX] Romney (clip from debate): My investments are not made by me.  My investments for the last ten years have been in a blind trust and that is my trustee.  Secondly, the investments that they've made—we've learned about this as we made our financial disclosure—have been in mutual funds and bonds.  I don't own stock in either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.  There are bonds that the investors has held through mutual funds.

TEXT: Is Mitt Romney's "blind trust" an age-old ruse to avoid responsibility?

TEXT: Let's ask Mitt...

Romney (old clip from U.S. Senate campaign): A blind trust is an age-old ruse if you will, which is to say you can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do; you give a blind trust rules.

TEXT: If we can't trust Mitt Romney with the facts, how can we trust him to beat Barack Obama?

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