Posted on 03/15/2017 6:36:42 AM PDT by simpson96
At 7:36 pm Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow tweeted “BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously),” sending the internet into a frenzy of theorizing. Did Maddow have Donald Trump’s tax returns or just one of the Trumps’ tax returns? Could this be it, the tax return that would bring down the Donald? If this was it, why wasn't MSNBC cutting into its programming, instead of running a countdown clock to Maddow’s show? By 8:24, Maddow was tweeting that the tax return in question was Donald Trump’s 1040 from 2005. By 8:30, still half an hour before Maddow started airing, the White House had responded to the MSNBC report, saying that Trump had paid $38 million on income of $150 million that year. An hour later, about 20 minutes after The Rachel Maddow Show started, Maddow would confirm these numbers, turning her big scoop about Donald Trump’s long-missing tax returns into a cautionary tale about over-hype. Rachel Maddow, you played yourself—and us too.
“It’s been a little bit of a hullabaloo around here this evening, I apologize for being flustered,” Maddow said at the top of the hour, before confirming that her show had copies of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, obtained by the reporter David Cay Johnston, to share with her audience. “In just a second we’re going to show you exactly what it is we’ve got,” she said, before launching, instead, into a 20-minute monologue. Maddow seemed uncharacteristically nervous as she wended her way though what could kindly be described as context and which I am unkindly describing as word salad, a long meander that was difficult to follow even without the distracting promise of a revelatory tax return at its end.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Gingrich is saying the release of someone else’s tax returns is a felony. Whoever did it should be locked up.
Good one - maybe Geraldo worked with Rachel on this one....
watching the left come unhinged was in and of itself worth voting for Trump.
Mad Cow really screwed up this time, she will get a raise of course.
Pretend news from a pretend ‘journalist’
Something had to be there. Right?
Where did she get the tax returns?
I would think her and Microsoft and NBC can be sued and indicted for stealing then releasing private information.
,,,, all I can think is ,,,, Thanks Miz Maddow for making Trump look like a real champion of the cause while you look like a doomed dear in the headlights of gotcha !!!
I checked twice - yes, this is Slate. How bad do you have to screw up before even they have to admit it?
Seems to me that they were so eager to embarrass the President they didn’t bother to review the material they had. It sounds like they didn’t even read it before going live. They were reckless. You would think SOMEBODY would read it beforehand.
Maybe it was in cursive
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