PDad wrote:Trump's answer on ABC's This Week indicated his proposal was a starting point for negotiations, he'd give on the upper end and said he's willing to pay more taxes. George questioned his willingness to pay more taxes and Trump doubled-down on it. Apparently he did the same thing on NBC's Meet the Press. As Sam says, he walked it back afterward.
Clarifying an answer isn't necessarily (or at all in this instance) the same thing as "walking it back." Trump is willing to give on the upper end and personally pay more taxes than those specified in his tax plan/proposal, if doing so is necessary to secure large tax reductions for businesses and the middle class. That's not a tax raise on the rich; it's a smaller tax cut.
Trump's clearly articulated ambition is to get his tax plan passed in its entirety. The more support he has, and the less contrived opposition from so-called conservatives, the better positioned he will be to do exactly that.