{"id":41195,"date":"2019-04-14T12:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T19:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41195"},"modified":"2019-04-14T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T19:42:52","slug":"to-sarah-sanders-if-congress-is-too-dumb-to-understand-trumps-taxes-releasing-them-cant-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41195","title":{"rendered":"To Sarah Sanders: If Congress is Too Dumb to Understand Trump’s Taxes, Releasing Them Can’t Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump’s media relations have been a case study in both a totalitarian hostility toward the free press and a narcissist’s obsession for attention and adulation. He has repeatedly referred to the media in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people,”<\/em> while lashing out personally at journalists and networks that he doesn’t think are sufficiently adoring.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s White House has all but abandoned the daily press briefings that every other president in modern times has held. But he continues to send his press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, out to the same TV news networks that he maligns. While there she does nothing but disseminate flagrant lies, packaged propaganda, and irrational defenses of her bosses many offensive utterances. Case in point: Sanders went on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to try to shore another bad week for Trump. When the subject turned to the President’s stubborn refusal to release his tax returns, Sanders let this bull fly (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Frankly, Chris, I don\u2019t think Congress – particularly not this group of congressmen and women – are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume that President Trump\u2019s taxes will be.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously? Trump’s first responses to this question were promises that he would release his taxes and would be happy and proud to do so. That later shifted to a lie about being audited, which he said prevented him from releasing his returns. It doesn’t. Most recently he has just declared that he isn’t going to do it under any circumstances. Which should cause any thoughtful citizen to wonder why he’s lied for so long and what terrible things he is trying to hide?<\/p>\n

But for Sanders to make such a vicious ad hominem attack on the entire institution of Congress only escalates the suspicions that Americans should have. After all, it is the job of Congress to conduct oversight on matters like this, and many members have professional experience and training in economics. The insult by Sanders is just a lame attempt to avoid the real issues that concern Trump’s corruption and nefarious business relations that may include Russians.<\/p>\n

If Sanders thinks Congress is too dumb to comprehend Trump’s taxes, why does the White House she represents think they are capable of developing a new healthcare plan; or ratifying international treaties; or passing Trump’s Tax Scam; or regulating everything from energy to banks to defense policy? Her scattershot slander only reinforces this administration’s aversion to the American ideal of democratic self-rule. According to Trump World, we’re all too stupid to be allowed any such privilege.<\/p>\n

However, if Sanders really believes what she’s saying, then why would she have any objection to Trump’s taxes being released right now? After all, Congress won’t be able to understand them, so what’s the harm? In reality, this is just another example of projection by Trump and company. This is a man so inept that he bankrupted four casinos. He is the one who is so painfully idiotic that he can’t comprehend even simple matters, particularly about the economy<\/a><\/strong>. Take for instance his Sunday morning tweet about the Federal Reserve Board:<\/p>\n

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If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points, and GDP would have been well over 4% instead of 3%…with almost no inflation. Quantitative tightening was a killer, should have done the exact opposite!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n