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Backup theory: Trump leaked his own tax returns?
hotair.com ^ | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 03/15/2017 5:59:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

It didn’t take long for MSNBC and Rachel Maddow to go from hero to goat last night. Now some want to move them from goat to … victim? After spending all day hyping an exclusive on Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns but delivering a prime-time “total nothingburger,” as Chris Cillizza put it at the Washington Post, some are speculating that Trump set up Maddow by leaking the tax returns himself:

Clearly the source of the "leaked" return is Trump himself. 10-20 missing pages w/ key info. This is to DISTRACT us from Russia, health care

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 15, 2017

The man who got the pages over the mail, DC Report’s David Cay Johnston, suggested the same thing after the White House popped the balloon shortly before the show went on air:
[T]he journalist who obtained the document, David Cay Johnston, said in his interview with Maddow that the return was mailed to him anonymously and may have even come from Trump.

“It’s entirely possible that [Trump] sent this to me,” he said in his first comments, citing Trump’s habit of leaking things about himself. (The documents read “client copy” which adds to that idea.)

Is that possible? Sure, because Trump does have a reputation for pulling stunts like this.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davidcayjohnston; maddow; maddowfelony; trump; trumptaxes
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1 posted on 03/15/2017 5:59:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The Donald apparently learned a thing or two from Obama’s birth certificate misdirection play.


2 posted on 03/15/2017 6:01:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: RoosterRedux; TADSLOS; Army Air Corps; GOPsterinMA; Impy
Clearly the source of the "leaked" return is Trump himself. 10-20 missing pages w/ key info. This is to DISTRACT us from Russia, health care ~ Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 15, 2017

Don't let this distract you from the fact that The Falcons blew a 28-3 lead against The Patriots in the Super Bowl Mike.

3 posted on 03/15/2017 6:02:07 AM PDT by KC_Lion ("We must put our citizens first. Only then will we Make America Great Again."- Donald Trump)
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To: RoosterRedux
Ping.

By his own admission, his serial pranks in junior high are the very reason his dad sent him off to New York Military Academy.

4 posted on 03/15/2017 6:02:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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What I want to know is: didn't Maddow read the tax returns before she promoted or aired them?

What a dolt! Now they want to blame Trump......again!

Bwahahahaha, still the Best Election Ever!

5 posted on 03/15/2017 6:04:42 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I speculate that the copy came from his Casino license application file in Pennsylvania... Obama buddy, Governor Slick Eddie Rendell was in charge of the process from 2003 to 2011.


6 posted on 03/15/2017 6:05:56 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: RoosterRedux

I actually watched the first half of Rachel Madcow; Geraldo delivered more with his Al Capone’s Vault show.


7 posted on 03/15/2017 6:08:47 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: tired&retired

Here is what I am finding funny about this. So, they received a “portion” of Trump’s 2005 tax returns, didn’t read it, didn’t vet it and knowing it is illegal to do anything with them other than ball it up and toss it in the trash, they “chose” to put it on the air.

And they are blaming Trump for their own illegal actions and idiocy? Haha.... This calls for an investigation into MSNBC and the d*ckw@d that received the file.


8 posted on 03/15/2017 6:09:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Maybe Putin did it???....... (sarcasm off)

The Leftist media have egg all over their face, and now they are trying to spin it they were set up by Trump.

I’m just waiting for them to blame Putin. LOL!

The Leftist Media is pathetic and it was an EPIC FAILURE on their part.


9 posted on 03/15/2017 6:11:40 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Joe Scarborough‏Verified account @JoeNBC 1h1 hour ago

The Trump camp released one positive tax return to distract from Russia hearings and the Trumpcare meltdown. That's painfully obvious.

I see all the hosts on MSNBC got their marching orders to cover for Maddow's stink bomb..

10 posted on 03/15/2017 6:18:53 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: KC_Lion

...or the fact that Madcow made a FAIL spectacle of hisself anyways. It is to LOL.


11 posted on 03/15/2017 6:22:14 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: RoosterRedux

To explain away the ‘client copy’ stamp, the story was quickly hatched to claim
1) Trump leaked his own tax return or
2) (Howard Dean theory:) Trump wants everyone to know he’s rich

neither is true


12 posted on 03/15/2017 6:24:27 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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If those idiots couldn’t read a 1040A and understand income and taxes paid, then they are beyond stupid.

Why would Trump release a form that is obviously beneficial to him and trick them into building it up as a huge piece of a scandalous treatment of taxation?

We know they had it ahead of time. I could have looked up those two key facts on those 2 pieces of paper in less than a minute.

Trump tricked them into going public with their own absolute stupidity.

That’s ridiculous.


13 posted on 03/15/2017 6:29:59 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: blueplum

Anyone can stamp “client copy” on anything and run it back through the copy machine. It is ridiculous for the media to even speculate about that detail, IMHO.


14 posted on 03/15/2017 6:30:01 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: CaptainK

If this is so painfully obvious, why did they fall for it then? They are saying, “We are really stupid.”


15 posted on 03/15/2017 6:32:03 AM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: RoosterRedux

As I saw it stated on The_Donald subreddit, you can’t troll a troll. Trump is trolling them, and once again they fell for it like clockwork.


16 posted on 03/15/2017 6:33:20 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: tired&retired
Obama buddy, Governor Slick Eddie Rendell was in charge of the process from 2003 to 2011.

Yes, and he's more crooked than all the hind legs in the Pittsburgh Dog Pound put together. Tom Wolf surely played along too.


17 posted on 03/15/2017 6:38:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“So, they received a “portion” of Trump’s 2005 tax returns”

Judging from the pictures I have seen, it was the 1040 form.


18 posted on 03/15/2017 6:46:00 AM PDT by odawg
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To: tired&retired

Well, obama was in charge of IRS, so i dont believe that. What i believe is that there are nothing on any of the returns. So it is not to obamas interest to have this leak when they can just whine about tax returns and make the none issues into one.


19 posted on 03/15/2017 6:47:41 AM PDT by VAFreedom (maybe i should take a nap before work)
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To: CAluvdubya
What I want to know is: didn't Maddow read the tax returns before she promoted or aired them?

You're being far too logical.   ;-)

In the Leftist mindset, Trump is already guilty; of course the evidence will fit. Much like the Red Queen in Alice and Wonderland, "Sentence first–verdict afterward."

20 posted on 03/15/2017 7:10:26 AM PDT by Flick Lives (I want to live long enough to see all Deep State operatives executed)
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