The Trump White House has the nerve to say congress is stupid
by digby
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on a roll today:
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked Sanders whether Trump would “demand that the IRS not turn over his tax returns” or, rather, “live with whatever the IRS decides.”
Sanders responded by repeating an irrelevant line from Trump, saying that as long as the President’s taxes are supposedly under audit, he will not release his returns. (Trump has never shown proof that he is under audit, and even if he is, he can still release his tax returns.)
Wallace pressed: “Will he tell the IRS not to release them though?”
She added later: “Frankly, Chris, I don’t 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’s taxes will be.”
“My guess is most of them don’t do their own taxes, and I certainly don’t trust them to look through the decades of success that the President has and determine anything.”
Chris asks @PressSec if the President will tell the IRS not to release his tax returns #FNS pic.twitter.com/RBaVniYMKj— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) April 14, 2019
I guess Sanders and Trump don’t know that congress writes the tax laws. They have experts on staff. I think they’ll be able to decipher Trump’s, no matter how convoluted they are.
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