Subject: Re: things from the sunday shows that I think need responses
From: "Manriquez, Pablo" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Wei, Shu-Yen" <[email-masked]>, "Jefferson, Deshundra" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>, "Helmstetter, TJ" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 13:25:37 -0700

Umm, crap. My work from home ask got stuck in the outbox folder on my phone. Apologies for not noticing sooner. You didn’t want me in today though. I feel better since this morning but am still in a state of snot, coughs, aches, & chills — too gross to expose Pod One all day to Pablo.

Plus Walter, TJ.

On May 9, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Walker, Eric <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Pabs you coming in today or what?

From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 4:09 PM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen
Cc: Jefferson, Deshundra; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric
Subject: Re: things from the sunday shows that I think need responses

No posting this one to Medium then, huh. Nbd. Happy to write more of these if we can publish them somewhere awesomer than our approvals chain, lol

On May 9, 2016, at 3:57 AM, Manriquez, Pablo <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Smaller Group: Cool, since we don't really have a good title for this one, and we're a day late here, can I quietly post this one to Medium? I've been wanting to post a blog on Medium for a while...perhaps it's the imagery of 3 drunk bros having a pledge transcribe foreign copy that makes this one interesting.

Sent from my iPhone

On May 8, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Wei, Shu-Yen <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Ooh or something snarky like:
Let’s Make a Deal: Trump to Offer Billionaire Tax Breaks at Working Families’ Expense

From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 5:19 PM
To: Manriquez, Pablo
Cc: Bhatnagar, Akshai; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Regional Press
Subject: Re: things from the sunday shows that I think need responses

How about shortening it?

SL: Trump Tax Plan 3: Offer Wealthiest Americans Huge Tax Breaks

Sent from my iPhone

On May 8, 2016, at 4:57 PM, Manriquez, Pablo <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Smaller Group: Not my best title. Any suggestions for a better one? If too long for Factivism, happy to work with Cate D to configure it into a super fun Medium post. Lmk!

SL: Trump Tax Plan 3: Offer Wealthiest Americans Huge Tax Breaks To Negotiate Tax Increase With Same Wealthiest Americans

This morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulus, the anchor broached the subject of Dangerous Donald half-baked tax “plan” whereby the buffoonish magnate promised massive tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans at the cost of the middle class and working people.

In some sense, Dangerous Donald's tax “plan” is par for the course. The Republican Party he now leads has clung to the failed policy obsession on of burdening future generations with gratuitous and unfunded tax breaks for Americans in the very top income brackets. In broad stokes this has been the tax plan of every Republican presidential candidate since President Clinton, a Democrat and one of the greatest job creators this country has ever seen. Clinton left the American people a booming economy when he left after his presidency’s second term.

George W. Bush left us pretty much the exact opposite. True to form, the Republican administration that immediately succeeded Clinton in the White House barely had time to unpack before unveiling their iteration of the same failed tax policy obsession that Dangerous Donald now proposes inflicting on today’s middle class and working families, another GOP-led burden on the American Dreams of future generations.

On paper, Trump’s plan looks good for a GOP candidate in that it is undistracted by things like math or…math. Trump’s tax plan would reduce government revenues by $9.5 trillion<http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/05/05/3775761/trump-tax-plan-reversal/> with nothing articulated to offset costs. Enter George Stephanopoulus, who’s interview with Trump this morning took an unexpected turn<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIV-TzPb3EQ&feature=youtu.be> when the great John Dickerson of CBS News asked Trump, "Do you want taxes on the wealthy to go up or down?”

Trump: They will go up a little bit and they go up…you know.

Stephanopoulus: But in your plan they’ll go down...

Dangerous Donald: On my plan they’ll go down but by the time it’s negotiated they’ll go up.

And it was all down hill from there, as you can see in these two clips from the same interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4YQfOEqXZo&feature=youtu.be (screenshot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jbhg8R0JBk&feature=youtu.be (screenshot)

“We have to be careful when we talk about what Donald Trump says about taxes as being a ‘plan’. It’s not a plan. From a policy perspective it reads like something three drunk bros wrote on a napkin for an undergrad to turn into a Word Doc. Like his entire candidacy, his brand, his properties, his hairpiece, even the man himself…everything Trump does, says, sells, is, from now until election night a national joke. The same can and should be said of any official, consultant, operative, or, god-forbid, candidate running under the GOP party banner during this cycle. Republicans have only themselves to blame for their shattered party establishment. Frankly, the rest of us have only Republicans to blame, too, for the brave new worlds this election cycle is taking our people.” - Luis/Mark

On May 8, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Bhatnagar, Akshai <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Donald Trump’s Clueless, Incoherent Rambling on Tax Policy 1:https://youtu.be/cIV-TzPb3EQ
Donald Trump’s Clueless, Incoherent Rambling on Tax Policy 2:https://youtu.be/2Jbhg8R0JBk
Donald Trump’s Clueless, Incoherent Rambling on Tax Policy 3:https://youtu.be/-4YQfOEqXZo

Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
web: democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC

Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
web: democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC

Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
web: democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC