Maddow Trumped Over Trump Tax Return 'Story'

MSNBC's "Tax Records" Non-Story: Trump Made $150MM, Paid 25% Tax Rate, More Than Romney, Bernie and Obama

While Rachel Maddow drones on with the coherence of Janet Yellen, losing thousands of viewers by the minute, the MSNBC anchor was promptly scooped not only by the White House which revealed her "secret" one hour in advance, but also by the Daily Beast which reported that its contributor David Cay Johnston had obtained the first two pages of Trump’s 2005 federal income tax return, allegedly receiving them in the mail, and posted his "analysts" on his website, DCReport.org.

According to the documents, Trump and his wife Melania paid $38 million in total income tax, consisting of $5.3 million in regular federal income tax, and an additional $31 million of “alternative minimum tax,” or AMT.

“It is totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns,” the White House statement concluded. “The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the President will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans.”

Sadly for Maddow, with this attempt at a "blockbuster" story which has quickly backfired, she may well have killed the great distraction that was the trope of Trump's tax returns, and which the rest of the "resistance" press hammered on every now and then.

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Trump 2005 tax rate: 25%
Romney 2011 tax rate: 14.1%
Sanders 2014 tax rate: 13.5%

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It took over 30 years for someone to top @GeraldoRivera for biggest over-hyped live TV epic fail in history. You did it Rachel Maddow !

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Well at least, when Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault, there was some actual dirt inside. What a laugh. Liberals before Madcow's show: "The taxes are coming! The taxes are coming!" Liberals after Madcow's show: "Damn. Its November 8th all over again!" Donald Trump just schlonged Madcow live on cable television. Something makes me think that somebody from the Trump circle just set Madcow up. What a bunch of fools over at MSNBC. Maddow will be drinking a lot of wine with her life partner after tonight. What an embarrassment. Maddow proving once again that she and MSNBC are irrelevant. Not just irrelevant, stupid as well. And the best part, President Trump scooped it, brilliant move Mr. President. Is there nothing that this man can't do? He caused Lena Dunham to lose weight, Babs Streisand to gain wait, Chrissy Matthews to forget his tingle and now MadCow is driven to reporting old news instead of only fake news. WOW! What a man! And best of all, he made the Clintons go away! And just think, if Hillary had this information before the election she would have lost 2 more states. I bet CNN is thankful they didn't get it first. But then they are still looking for a plane.

Madcow's audience ballooned to three tonight as she reported that the President Trump paid $38 million in taxes in just one year. He actually paid a higher tax rate than even MSNBC and Comcast and far higher than Obama. Thanks Madcow, thats the breaking news we all wanted to know! President Trump makes a lot of money and pays a lot in taxes! I can take it. Please don't make it stop Mr President! All this winning! I'm getting addicted! All this winning while Liberals, proving over and over, that no one can fix stupid.

Maddow is an irrelevant, lying liberal POS masquerading as a journalist who simply cannot stand the fact that people will not take him seriously. So now he makes a desperate attempt to get some attention by 'releasing' information that has already been released in hopes of getting high fives from the other leftists in the mainstream media. But in the end, it's just another argument for a second term for Trump.

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