I confess to not seeing the interview. Did he say in the interview that hedge fund taxes should go up?
Because if you say on Monday you want hedge fund taxes to go up, and then say on Tuesday that you want higher taxes on the wealthy, then you have just called for (a) higher hedge fund taxes, AND!!!!! (b)higher taxes on the wealthy also.
In no language on Earth is “higher taxes on hedge funds” the same as “higher taxes on the wealthy.”
I didn’t see the interview. But I read his tax plan.
He wants to eliminate some loopholes that mostly benefit hedge funds (ie. carried interest taxes, etc).
As another poster noted, Trump didn’t say that he wanted to raise taxes in this interview. He said that his tax cuts might not be as steep as proposed in his plan after it goes through congress.