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After making completely false claims about the GOP tax reform bill on ABC’s Good Morning America earlier on Sunday, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos spent most of This Week leading the discussion tearing it down.
After spending a couple minutes smearing the bill in his opening monologue, Stephanopoulos interviewed Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn where one of his first questions involved allegations GOP leaders bought off Tennessee Senator Bob Corker with a real estate provision:
There's a lot more scrutiny of the bill, which was just released on Friday in these final hours. Including an article in the International Business Times, that came out yesterday showing that a last-minute tax break, which was not included in the House or Senate provision, could bring millions of dollars to President Trump, and other Republicans, who get a lot of money from the real estate income through LLCs.
Instead of asking Cornyn to explain why the provision was there and what it was for, Stephanopoulos read a statement from Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen who called the GOP “unconscionable.” “Will you remove that provision,” the ABC host demanded to know. That’s not to mention how he thinks a bill released five days before a vote was somehow released “in these final hours.”
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