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PsykoMage posted...

I had to re-read it multiple times and my best attempt to interpret that is, he's OK politically speaking because unlike HW, he can't run again in four years so he wouldn't have to face the consequences directly. However, the Republicans in Congress would and yes, Democrats would run a ton of ads attacking the Republicans for that because that's what they did to HW in 1992 and was quite effective.

Also, the only other thing I can think of is that Trump may not be a hard ideologue on certain issues so maybe he really doesn't care if the rich get taxed a little bit more, especially if he can get something that's more important to him in return. He's accepted a bad Omnibus deal before in 2018 mostly just to get some extra defense spending and hardly any of his border wall built.

But why did he even post all that in the first place? I have no idea lol. There was no conversation among Republicans raising taxes on the rich anyway.

Yeah, no to the majority of that. He is planning on running in 2028. They really are serious about these loopholes to let him run again. And he already has raised taxes on everybody with his tariffs. And nothing he says or does loses him any votes. And he's claiming the tax thing wasn't what hurt HW, it was Perot.

It's mostly just his standard rambling BS of excuses that he does for everything. He is the one that was urging Mike Johnson yesterday to raise taxes on the wealthiest and to close the carried interest loophole. So it could cover up for all the massive losses he's been giving us lately. After this was reported on he's doing the "I'm fin with it, but I didn't ask for it, and also it's the Democrats fault if it happens, but if it does happen and most people like it then that was my idea" dance he loves to do.