Posted on 03/15/2017 1:31:30 PM PDT by drewh
The reporter who was lauded by the media for sharing Trump’s boring 2005 tax return is not getting much attention for his politics but perhaps he should be. While the networks this morning described David Cay Johnston as a “Pulitzer Prize winning reporter,” they apparently didn’t notice that he was a hard core liberal as well, like they would do with a reporter on the right.
Johnston is currently authoring an anti-Trump book and has tweeted thousands of tweets attacking Trump and the right. Not to mention he is a contributor to the left-leaning Daily Beast and New York Times. So maybe it should come as no surprise that the media is ignoring something salacious and slanderous Johnston said about the first lady last night on MSNBC.
During an exhaustive discussion on Trump’s taxes on MSNBC’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell Tuesday, the host, Maddow and Johnston pored through the brief document, speculating if each number had a hidden meaning. O’Donnell wondered aloud what the one million dollars wage and salary listed on the return referred to.
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: One of the straightforward lines here that's interesting is number 7 where he talks about he gets -- he has wages and salary income which is unusual for someone in his case. It is about a million dollars.
Johnston jumped in to speculate that the money belonged to Melania.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Could be hers. His wife was a model.
O’Donnell disagreed, finding that unlikely since Melania wasn’t “at that league” in the modeling business, before Johnston made his outrageous accusation:
O’DONNELL: She's on here. But she was never at that league of that business.
JOHNSTON: No.
O’DONNELL: But that could be --
JOHNSTON: She did do very sleazy porn, [indiscernable]
Johnston makes the comment as O’Donnell, unfazed, keeps reading. Rachel Maddow however shushes him for the accusation.
MADDOW: Hey, hey, hey
O’Donnell keeps making his point and the comment goes by the wayside. Apparently by the rest of the media too, for Johnston was on several news programs today and was never asked about that comment.
He should be arrested and charged.
oops - looks like another lawsuit coming
And she just won one
Yes she won. They thought their apology would get them out of it. Nope...she deals in cash...not rhetoric. Good for her.
more for Melania’s charities!
She didn’t kill anyone with her car. (L Bush)
She didn’t starve school children (M Obama)
She didn’t fake an alibi for her husband away from the scene of a presidential assassination (B Bush)
If she posed for stuff like that, SO DID AHNOLD for gay men. So what? She was a beautiful supermodel from a poor family.
Media Commies can call Melania Trump, our First Lady, a beautiful, intelligent, woman, a porn star yet if someone dare say ANYTHING negative about Michelle Obama they were fired and banned
Rachel MadCow.
Give em enough rope and they’ll hang themselves.
He can lie like a dog and get away with it.
It’s the 1st Amendment that protects him.
Why isn’t he arrested and charged? I don’t get it. He committed an obvious crime and he’s not going to be arrested?
Felony.......how did he really get those?
Well, the guy is a pedophile anyway....
Sue now or it will not go away like the left bullies they are. Remember Rosie appologied for the Baron comment? She apologized, then pulled it back and then called Trump a Nazi in protest. I call that the “cake in the rain” speech during the Address of Union.
He made one of my lists, so there's probably a number of articles where he defended the scumbag Pantload to the death.
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