Rachel Maddow

[Belsnickel]

(03-17-2017, 10:17 AM)xxlt Wrote: You are correct. And of course, investigating Russia could end the Trump presidency meaning we would get on to policy with Pence, assuming he didn't go down with the ship.

But it is quite clear why Trump will move heaven and earth, perhaps even resign the presidency and seek asylum in a friendly country like Russia to avoid disclosing his taxes. They are the keystone of "the big lie." He doesn't have anywhere near the money he says he has, and he is not a good business person. Revealing his taxes will make that quite clear. Sure, he's rich enough, and getting richer every day through his schemes to loot the treasury and monetize the presidency while the House leadership fiddles. But he doesn't want the big lie exposed. It is not just pride and ego, but the fact that every lie he has told from the ones he tells as Donald Trump to the one's he tells when he calls reporters and pretends to be someone else talking about Donald Trump all hinge on his make believe billions.

I don't disagree that we would likely find out that Trump is just a big bullshit artist were we to see his taxes. But, him being a bullshit artist and lying about his worth doesn't change the results of the election, and it likely doesn't change the minds of those loyal to him.

Also, I think a major part of the big lie of his is that he doesn't really know what's going on. When he talks policy he displays an ignorance not just about policy in general, which is to be expected from a neophyte to policy, but to the policy he is supposedly behind. I am convinced more and more that he is not the one pulling the levers.