This is Conway at her most impressive. She steers a question about Trump’s lack of transparency about his tax returns — which caused a record-breaking number of Americans to sign a White House petition — to a charge that Democrats need to pass tax reform. This is pundit Mad Libs. She’s replaced the “What the People Want” blank — FOR DONALD TRUMP TO RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS — with another — FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO PASS TAX RELIEF. And done so in a way that implies that she is the one speaking for the people. (Never mind the people, who presumably signed the petition hoping to speak for themselves.) The concealed argument — “I won’t address what the people who signed that petition want, I will only talk about what Trump supporters want” — is too well-hidden to be offensive.
How Kellyanne Conway became the greatest spin doctor in modern American history
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