Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
■ President Donald Trump reveled in the Senate’s passage of the tax bill Saturday.
President says ‘no collusion’ between campaign and Russians
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump reveled Saturday in the Senate’s passage of a sweeping tax bill, predicting that he and his fellow Republicans were “unbeatable.”
Trump swept into his hometown on a $6 million fundraising blitz, a day after former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and promised cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
The president told reporters there was “no collusion” between his campaign and the Russians, then tweeted, “nothing to hide!” He said he “had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI” and defended Flynn’s actions during the presidential transition as lawful.
The tax legislation now goes to a House-Senate committee, which will try to reconcile the versions passed by each chamber. “Something beautiful is going to come out of that mixer,” Trump said. “People are going to be very, very happy.”
After landing in New York City, Trump’s motorcade drove near several hundred protesters decrying the tax bill and his administration’s entanglement in the Russia probe.
Looking ahead, the president boasted that Democrats’ prospects in 2020 looked bleak.
“Right now unless they have somebody that we don’t know about, right now we’re unbeatable. We’re unbeatable,” Trump said. “And one of the reasons is what’s happening with the markets, what’s happening with business, what’s happening with jobs.”
The president noted that the Senate’s nearly $1.5 trillion tax overhaul passed with only Republican votes and predicted that Democrats would regret their opposition.