Rachel Maddow blames viewers for Trump tax return dud

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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is blaming her fans for over-hyping the Tuesday release of two pages of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns, a story that proved Trump paid more in taxes than many of his liberal critics.

    @foxandfriends She thought she had @realDonaldTrump against the ropes and she’s the one who ended up getting KO’d.

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTunmp) March 16, 2017

Maddow spent 20 minutes of her show Tuesday explaining why the tax return is important, and teased all the possibilities it could reveal, before exposing what Fox News Channel’s Steve Doocy described as “a big nothing burger,” the Associated Press reports.

She spent Wednesday defending against criticism that she over-hyped the documents, and blamed her fans for the let-down.

“Because I have information about the president doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a scandal,” she said. “It doesn’t mean that it’s damning information. If other people leapt to that conclusion without me indicating that it was, that hype is external to what we did.”

But the network played up Maddow’s scoop with a countdown clock:



http://www.theamericanmirror.com/rachel-maddow-blames-viewers-trump-tax-return-dud/

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March 16, 2017 8:57 am

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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow implied on her show Wednesday night that President Donald Trump's tax returns had to be "sterling" in 2005 so that his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, would be granted American citizenship.

Maddow started by pointing out that Melania Trump did have a green card, just not citizenship.

Maddow then said the tax returns would be "used as a very important piece of evidence" to help Melania Trump.

"So, when Melania Trump went for her citizenship interview in 2006, she would have had to bring tax returns, including from this first year when she was married to Donald Trump, and that tax return would be used as a very important piece of evidence as to whether or not she should get citizenship," Maddow said.

Maddow then said the Trumps had to make sure their tax returns were "sterling" to ensure Melania was granted American citizenship.

"So you better believe that the 2005 tax return is going to be sterling, right? That it's going to display excellent citizenship and no red flags whatsoever," she continued.

Maddow said that this was an "unusual" thing.

"So, that's one thing that is unusual about 2005," she said.


http://freebeacon.com/politics/maddow-claims-trumps-2005-tax-returns-had-to-be-sterling-so-that-melania-could-become-a-citizen/

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From the FOX News Insider:

Geraldo: Rachel Maddow Now Has the ‘Al Capone’s Vault’ Mantle

Rachel Maddow’s “bombshell” about President Donald Trump’s tax returns turned out to be a bit of a dud.

On her MSNBC show, Maddow reported on two pages of Trump’s 2005 return, showing that he made $153 million in 2005 and paid $36.5 million in income taxes ($38 million in total taxes).

Maddow was slammed for overhyping the underwhelming report, which the Washington Post called a “total nothingburger.”

On “America’s News HQ” today, Geraldo Rivera said Maddow had her own “Al Capone’s vault” moment.

On April 21, 1986, millions of viewers tuned in to “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults,” a live excavation hosted by Geraldo that promised to dig deep into the catacombs of the gangster’s hotel hideout in Chicago.

“We thought it had bodies in it, guns, gold, cash,” Geraldo said. “It turned it was an empty Gilbey’s gin bottle and a 1926 stop sign.”

“I wanted to bury myself in the hole when I found nothing,” he added.

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MadCow hyped the "revelation". The "revelation" fell flat. Progs whined and conservatives laughed. MadCow blames her viewers.

If there were any doubts, this shows MadCow is a true Prog.

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Stephen Pulls A 'Rachel Maddow'

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Stephen Pulls A 'Rachel Maddow'

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That was excellent!