Maddow pulls a Geraldo

That is the wide spread speculation including by the reporter who got mailed the two pages. It also fits with Trump's past practices.

No conclusive proof but the smart money is on it.

You should invite him here

In other words, because this blew up in Maddow's face, Trump had to have engineered it.

The information we got was disappointingly boring. Don't make a thing of it until we actually know something juicy.

It's just bad journalism.

Maybe in a couple years. He's JUST getting his feet wet in the whole internet social interaction thing. The last thing I want is for him to be disillusioned because a bunch of old people don't know how to have a decent conversation without devolving into insults. Not that I'm throwing stones, everyone here knows I've been known to get into the middle of some of those mudfights, too.

One, it's the 2005 return, which is pretty irrelevant in the discussion (remember, the IRS only cares about the previous 7 years).
Two, I'm guessing Sanders is in a lower tax bracket than Trump, so even if this was a relevant tax return, that would probably explain the percentage difference.

What I will agree with you is this: Maddow is shooting herself in the foot by latching onto this as the Holy Grail, and enables Trump to essentially say, "Now go away before I taunt you a second time!"

Someone had to leak something. MSNBC has about ten viewers and that isn't enough for this sort of attention.

Ten? So Trump getting elected DOUBLED their audience! He should get a percentage of their profits!

"Press will spike stories that show Trump in a good light!" would thus be the cry from the Breitbarters and Trump's lackeys.

This tells me you never watched the piece because she explicitly said there was no smoking gun, that it was a dozen years old, and it's origin is unclear but that in the interests of public disclosure she was releasing it to the public. It was not remotely a hit piece so you are simply wrong.

So she hypes it up for hours, has a giant grin on her face the whole time, is giddy as a school girl and the producers never once thought that it could backfire and make her look like a fool, but that's good journalism? Yeah, okay.

Rachel Maddow is such a stupid little boy sometimes.

I think the extra five are people who are still hoping for an Obama third term.

I would have voted for him if there weren't term limits. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! The country isn't broke even if it isn't perfect - but I don't make the rules.

It's hilarious that Maddow is blaming the viewers for her screw-up.

"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."

What a twat.

One wonders what news value she thought the tax return would have, then.

If she says "I never claimed it was a big deal" then one should ask "Then why did you build a show around it?"

Maddow's Wolf Cry Brought in Big Numbers


That's why.

Fucking hell. My effective tax rate was 33%, and I didn't make a thousandth of what he did. Trump can go fuck himself and his 24% on a large rusty iron spike.

what about Obama's 19% and Saint Bernies 14?

Now all of a sudden it is wrong to use the loopholes and write offs you are entitled to when it is Bernie or Obama? The point is we should have tax laws that require similar, if not greater, contribution for the rich and corporate entities. Bernie, at least, is putting forth ideas and proposals like that. Donald is making things more uneven with donaldcare and bragging about it. He is entitled to take his tax breaks, but we should be ending that entitlement and his corporate welfare.

Fuck them too.

In fairness to Trump, he didn't make the tax laws.

Neither did they.

Eh, he was funnier when he was on Comedy Central.

Yup, raising idiot leftie children gotta start somewhere.

Otherwise the little kids won't know to cry and bawl and scream if Trump gets reelected. You and the elementary school teachers should Just keep warping, I mean teaching, your kids to be mindless leftie drones, certainly nothing could go wrong with that plan. But the kid sounds like he can follow a logical train of thought so you're failing, maybe try to bang him on the head a few times with a plank so he really starts to sound like you?

Crawl back under a rock you old fuck.

It's ok, just keep teaching your kids what to think instead of how.

Future prey ?