‘It’s Disgusting’: WH Spox Lashes Out At Dems For ‘Overreach’

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The White House on Monday doubled down on acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s suggestion this weekend that Democrats will “never” see President Trump’s tax returns and took it a step further, insulting Democrats for their “disgusting” efforts to fight Trump “at every turn.”

“No matter what we do, it is never going to be enough. If you came out tomorrow and gave the Mueller report to the entire press corps unredacted and then came out and said, ‘By the way, here is a stack of my tax returns for the last 10 years,’ they would come up with something else,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News on Monday. “It is never good enough because whatever Donald Trump does they hate. … They want to fight him at every turn and this is another example of that. It’s disgusting.”

Gidley went on to suggest that Democrats’ oversight has actually become “overreach” and said they’ve done nothing to work with Trump to “fix the problems of the day.”

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  1. “No matter what we do, it is never going to be enough. If you came out tomorrow and gave the Mueller report to the entire press corps unredacted and then came out and said, ‘By the way, here is a stack of my tax returns for the last 10 years,’ they would come up with something else…"

    …called impeachment proceedings.

    Seriously…if we had all that, the guy would be fucking toast, which is why they don’t want us to have any of it. A fucking kindergartener could see through this shit. It’s the most transparent thing in DC right now.

  2. All we’re asking is that you hold Trump to the same level of accountability and discovery as Hillary was during !Benghazi!

  3. Avatar for theod theod says:

    “It’s never going to be enough.”
    hhhhmmmm…not unlike Obama’s birth certificate canard, perhaps.

  4. C’mon Dems, work together with Repubs to fix the problems they’ve identified. Like cancer-causing windmills. Pay no attention to crazy corrupt leader spouting that nonsense.

  5. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    Somebody’s really getting worried.

    So, is everyone just lying to Donnie about the likelihood of the Dems getting the unredacted report and his tax returns so he doesn’t lose it completely, or does he know it’s a lost cause but hopes he can drag the fight out past November 2020?

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