Incidentally, in 2010 Schwarzman likened the possibility of President Barack Obama raising taxes on private-equity firms like Blackstone to actions taken by Adolf Hitler during World War II. “It’s a war,” Schwarzman told a room full of nonprofit board members. “It’s like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.” (In the end, Obama never actually closed the loophole on carried interest that could have increased taxes on private-equity profits from 15 percent to 35 percent, and threatened Schwarzman’s ability to source elaborate Halloween costumes that must require a team of people to dress him in.) That, apparently, was completely acceptable. But throw around the word “Nazi” just because of his close association with a guy who literally said a group containing actual neo-Nazis had some “very fine people” among it? How dare you.

Schwarzman, who was head of the president’s Strategic and Policy Forum before the group decided to disband in the wake of Trump’s Charlottesville comments, also said on Tuesday that despite The New York Times report that he was “outraged” by Trump’s decision to give Nazis and white supremacists a pass, he wasn’t offended in the slightest. “No, I wasn’t outraged,” Schwarzman said. “I don’t know where The New York Times got that one.”

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Lawmakers would love it if they could see the details of a tax-reform bill before voting on it

Over the next seven weeks, Donald Trump is expected to visit as many as 13 states as part of his big pitch to sell tax reform. The strategy, which Bloomberg reports was shared with administration allies by top advisers on September 8, has everything: the president visiting states he won where Democratic senators are up for re-election; Cabinet members who will be “deployed behind Trump in a second wave to . . . amplify his message”; speeches drafted by Stephen Miller, the communications team, and economic advisers, with input from Trump; and a Treasury Department spokesman who has been “detailed” to the White House to organize “all the moving pieces.” There’s just one thing it’s missing and it’s totally minor but lawmakers have nevertheless been griping about it to anyone who will listen: an actual plan.

“There’s nothing concrete yet,” Rep. Carlos Curbelo told Politico. “It is frustrating and concerning that we don’t have the details and yet we’re going to be asked in 60 days to vote on something,” a killjoy member of the House Ways and Means Committee said. One major detail that has not been finalized is the proposed new corporate tax rate, which Trump keeps suggesting will be as low as 15 percent, despite his advisers desperately sending the message that the odds of achieving a 15 percent rate are lower than Jared Kushner’s odds of bringing peace to the Middle East.

“The president has made it clear since the campaign, ideally he’d like to get it down to 15 percent. I don’t know if we’ll be able to achieve that given the budget issues, but we’re going to get this down to a very competitive level,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha Conference. “What the exact number is is less important, what’s important is making sure we have a competitive system.”

Wells Fargo C.E.O.: gird your loins

When Wells Fargo first disclosed that up to 2.1 million customers may have had accounts created in their name without their knowledge, one imagines the bank might have been overestimating to be safe, and that there was no chance the number would be that high. Then, at the end of August, Wells revealed that, actually, the number was more like 3.5 million. At the same time, it was forced to admit that hundreds of thousands of customers were charged for auto insurance they didn’t need, in a separate, completely unrelated scam. Now, C.E.O. Tim Sloan is just coming out and saying it: you might as well assume the numbers will grow and, and at this point, he doesn’t feel comfortable guaranteeing that Wells Fargo won’t screw over more customers in the future.