MSNBC host Rachel Maddow set a new standard for over-hyping a television show with last Tuesday’s debacle regarding President Donald Trump’s federal income tax returns.
About an hour and a half before her usual 9 p.m. broadcast, Maddow was tweeting “breaking news” that she somehow had gotten copies of the Trump tax returns, and would reveal them on her show.
This news created a major publicity balloon that was almost immediately deflated when the White House scooped Maddow by releasing the topline news that Mr. Trump had paid $38 million in federal taxes on income of $150 million in 2005.
During the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s GOP primary opponents, the mainstream media, Democrats and finally Hillary Clinton pressured him to release his income tax returns for public scrutiny.
The GOP candidate said he would after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) completed an audit that was underway. That position did nothing to satisfy his critics.
Learn how the Maddow “revelation” blew up in her face, subjected her to widespread humiliation, and actually benefited the President.
Maddow likely finds herself in legal jeopardy for breaking any laws regarding unauthorized release of tax return information. It all is explained on the next page.
Send her to Syria!
It’s even more likely that she showed herself to be a giant butt crack!
off to leavenworth rachel
bitch slap her then lock her up
This is a guy right
Seriously, it’s time to stop coddling these idiots. If she broke the law, then charge her and try her. I’m sick to death of f**e news, and of reporters and politicians who think the laws do not apply to them.
LOCK UP THIS IDIOT NOW!!!
Good.
Trump playing con games as it’s all he knows
Likely??? LMAO – Maddow did break the law – just because they have tax returns/information of another person the publishing w/o permission is illegal…period.