So, I need help deciphering this one

[EnergizedLib]

REPORTER: The justices also said the deportees are entitled to due process

LEAVITT: That's not quite true

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-08T17:40:09.233Z

‘REPORTER: The justices also said the deportees are entitled to due process

LEAVITT: That's not quite true’

So, this ‘Supreme’ Court is a nightmare, but all nine justices did say due process is required in deportations.

So, does that make this embarrassment of a press secretary…

- A terrible liar (maybe the worst liar I’ve ever seen)

- Remarkably and extraordinarily clueless

Or

- A gaslighter of the worst degree?

Because I think a serious argument could be made for two of these, if not all three.

[Silent Type]

1. Leavitt is perfect for that job. She lies with ease and would likely have joined the Nazis or Klan if she were older.

[EnergizedLib]

3. The lying only works

If people fail to see through the BS. I can see it like I can see daylight.

[applegrove]

2. She said tariffs were a tax cut and everyone was jumping up

and down saying she was dumb. What if she was told tariffs will mean income tax is ended. That tariffs would replace income tax. The progressive taxation would be over. Rich a**holes have wanted this for a long time because they don't want to pay their fair share of taxes.

Trump has mentioned ending them twice: once during the campaign, once after the election. In the Wednesday tariff presentation he mentioned how stupid it was for income tax to be implemented in 1913 and would not even mention Teddy Roosevelt's name. He did the same speil on income taxes being awful in his Oval Office presser with Netanyahu.

So was Karoline Leavitt stupid when she said tariffs were a tax cut..... you be the judge.

[EnergizedLib]

4. I don't know who tariffs would be a tax cut for

Again, like I mentioned in an earlier post, the 20th Century has been called the American Century, but it’s not like tariffs had anything to do with that.

It’s hard to figure out if she’s stupid, per se, though very much a possibility, but gaslighting/lying are two definite traits of hers.

[applegrove]

5. Tariffs would 'enable' the end of income tax and

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be a huge tax cut for the 50% of Americans, the well off or middle class who pay income tax, if Trump gets away with it. Was that what was in her head is what I am asking?

[EnergizedLib]

6. Well, isn't it her job to lie?

She’s not even good at that.

[applegrove]

7. So maybe she's not so dumb.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Tariff taxes are regressive taxes. Replacing income tax w tariff taxes hurts the poor & middle class

Who needs to shop more at Walmart: the janitor or the lawyer?

[applegrove]

11. Oh it would be terribly regressive. I am not advocating it at all.

The US in 1870 to 1913 had desperate poverty and child labour. No rights for POC or women. It was horrible. And the poor and the middle class would pay all the taxes. No No No we don't want that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. No worries. I was attacking Leavitt's statement. Sorry I should have been clearer about that. . . . nt

[applegrove]

13. No problem. I wasn't sure but wanted to be clear.

[CharleyDog]

8. maybe because the SC said the deportees will have due process WHERE

The SC said the deportees must have due process in the place where they are imprisoned/detained

So if Trump SS force flies them to Texas and imprisons them there, they will have their due process there. Likely with known judges who support lawless deportation.

So, a win for Trump and his extradition, rendition, SS style.

[calimary]

9. She's a founding member of the new Dumb Clucks Club.

It’s just embarrassing all the way around.