After the New York Times published its bombshell reporting on President Donald Trump’s tax informationover the weekend, his sycophants rushed to his defense. One of those sycophants has been White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian R. Morgenstern. During a CNN appearance on Monday, Morgenstern insisted to host Poppy Harlow that the Times’ reporting was no big deal — and Harlow explained why, in fact, it is a very big deal.
The Times reported that during ten out of 15 years, the wealthy Trump paid no federal income taxes — and that during his first year in office, he only paid $750.
Harlow told Morgenstern:
Here’s why it matters: because federal taxes pay for things like the military — that the president said he so strongly supports. It pays the salary of Secret Service members that secure him every single day. It pays for roads, bridges — I could go on. And the average American, in 2017, Brian, paid $12,199 in federal income taxes. Why does the president believe that he owes 16 times less? Continue reading.