Donald J. Trump is his own greatest enemy since he has a large mouth and his words often come back to haunt him.

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance explained why.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has charged the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg with a slew of tax offenses.

Prosecutors accused the Trump Organization and Trump Payroll Corporation with ten counts on Thursday, while Weisselberg was charged with 15 counts of felony fraud dating back to 2005 – and Vance addressed Trump’s response.

Trump’s own statements could end up biting him in the ass.

Vance told host Willie Geist, “I’m struck every time I hear the former president’s comments,” she continued, “He didn’t say, you know, ‘this is untrue, we’re going to fight this.’ He didn’t say like you would think a business owner might, ‘this is outrageous; I can’t believe this was going on in my company.’ Instead, he returns to ‘witch hunt.’”

“What can you say when prosecutors file a highly detailed document that alleges with a lot of specific information that there was a pattern and practice across 15 years of doing all sorts of things to avoid both the payment of taxes by your employees and to permit the corporation to engage in some fraudulent conduct?” Vance continued. “This is a president who infamously in his debate with Hillary Clinton said he was smart because he didn’t pay taxes.”

“Right now, we don’t know whether this lawsuit will eventually reach him; it’s limited to the corporation that bears his name and the CFO, but those words in that argument may come back to haunt him,” she continued.

In 2016, while on the debate stage, Hillary Clinton tore into Trump for not revealing his tax returns. In response, Trump said that he’s “smart” by not paying income taxes — and argued that if he did, the money would be “squandered.”

“The only years anyone has ever seen are a couple of years when he had to give them over to state authorities when he was attempting to acquire a casino license, and they showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax,” Clinton said at the time. “That makes me smart,” Trump retorted.