| Hiku said: Oh and what Trump said (Tweeted) was that they shouldn't focus on getting rid of it now. He still called it "unfair" and that it shouldn't be their number 1 main focus. So he doesn't sound opposed to getting rid of it later, in a more discrete way. And most likely he just didn't want the negative attention this was getting, because Republicans couldn't wait one single day before they tried something ridiculous like this. Even Paul Ryan voted against it, probably realizing how bad it looks. |
Exactly, Trump isn't against the idea of doing this, he's against the idea of doing it *first thing* out of the gate.
Tackling too many controversial positions early on with cripple his political capital and he knows that. He needs to get those tax breaks for rich people and corporations done first, so he's telling the nutcases in the GOP to cool it on some of their crazier ideas. Even Paul Ryan knows this is political stupidity that's why he was trying to talk the GOP out of it. But Trump's tweets say it is "unfair" (now watch Trump supporters try and convince themselves that actually revoking this is a good idea in the long run).
Likely the plan is to do this in the long run, they just need to wait until people are not paying as much attention and sneak it in.
