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Donald Trump speaks in Des Moines on Sept. 19, 2015. (Charlie Neibergall, AP)
Donald Trump previewed at least a portion of the tax plan he says he’ll roll out in the coming<span style="color: Red;">*</span>days in a wide-ranging<span style="color: Red;">*</span>interview on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>60 Minutes<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that aired Sunday.
So<span style="color: Red;">*</span>what will tax rates look like under a President Trump?
“Substantial reduction for the middle-income people, because our middle class, Scott, is being absolutely decimated,” Trump told CBS<span style="color: Red;">*</span>News’<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Scott Pelley.
“Some very wealthy are going to be raised,” he added. “Some people that are getting unfair deductions are going to be raised.” He wouldn’t get into numbers, saying those would come in the next two days. He did note, though, that under his plan<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“there will be a large segment of our country that will have a zero rate” and that tax cuts for the middle class would be “significant.”
Some portions of the interview had already been<span style="color: Red;">*</span>released by CBS in the days leading up to Sunday’s show, such as Trump calling the North American Free Trade Agreement a “disaster” that he would either renegotiate or “break.”
In the segment<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that aired Sunday night, Pelley asked Trump about Obamacare.
“Obamacare’s going to be repealed and replaced,” Trump said. “Obamacare is a disaster.”
That’s not exactly a surprising thing to hear from a leading Republican presidential candidate, but Trump followed that with what he acknowledged was an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“un-Republican thing for me to say” pledging<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“to take care of everybody” when it comes to health care.
How will he do that? He said he’d cut a deal with hospitals to take care of everyone, and that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“the government’s gonna pay for it, but we’re going to save so much money on the other side,” though he also suggested that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“for the most part, it’s going to be a private plan.”
As for foreign policy, Pelley asked Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>how he’d combat the Islamic State.
“These people are totally a disaster,” he said.
Trump said, when it came to the terror group’s presence in Syria, the Obama administration had the wrong approach. Rather than actively target them<span style="color: Red;">*</span>now, he said the U.S. should let the Islamic State and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>President Bashar al-Assad’s<span style="color: Red;">*</span>forces fight between themselves, then come in after.
He also<span style="color: Red;">*</span>suggested another way:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“Maybe let Russia do it. Let’em get rid of ISIS. What the hell do we care?”
As for the Islamic State’s<span style="color: Red;">*</span>presence in Iraq, he called for a more aggressive approach, saying “you got to knock them out.” He added that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>ground troops should be used if necessary.
Nearly any extended discussion of Trump inevitably turns to the man himself and his larger-than-life persona.
Pelley noted that Trump’s office walls are adorned almost entirely with magazine covers of himself.
“It’s cheaper than wallpaper,” the billionaire businessman deadpanned, before offering this explanation for his ubiquitous media presence.
“I’m on a lot of covers,” he said. “I think maybe more than almost any supermodel. I think more than any supermodel.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>But in a way, that’s a sign of respect.”
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