Trump isn't saying he doesn't pay taxes, but 'that's the kind of thinking we need in our country'
Donald Trump is still insisting he didn't say what he clearly said in Monday night's debate, that not paying any taxes "makes me smart." On Bill O'Reilly's show Wednesday night he again said he never said what 100 million people heard, but if he had said it, boy, that's just what the country needs.
"I never said I didn't pay taxes," Trump maintained. "[Hillary Clinton] said, 'Maybe you didn't pay taxes.' And I said, 'Well, that would make me smart,' because tax is a big payment. But a lot of people say, 'That's the kind of thinking that I want running this nation.'"Some people loved that statement, and other people didn't. But the fact is that I think people are looking at it like maybe that's the kind of person we need. ... I think that's the kind of thinking we need in our country."
"I'm not saying it. Other people are saying it." The record does show that for the handful of recent Trump returns that are public, he paid very little to nothing in taxes. That's, like, a fact. And the ears of 100 million people, the transcript, and the video of Monday's debate all show Trump saying "That makes me smart" to the charge that he does not pay taxes. "Makes" not "would make."
And what in the hell kind of national leader cares so little about his country that he refuses to pay to keep it going? But, hey, it's worked for his business so far, and his Foundation, so why not. He still has his "empire" even though he refused to pay a lot of the people who built it for him, and he still has the Trump Foundation, even though he himself isn't putting any money into it. So why wouldn't he get away with it as president?
But to all the people who might be thinking "that's the kind of thinking we need in our country," aren't you supposed to be the patriots?
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