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Rachel Maddow roasted on Twitter for ‘nothingburger’ Trump tax return reveal
© 2017 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. ^ | March 15, 2017 12:35 am | By Jesse Ferreras

Posted on 03/15/2017 2:08:41 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

“Nothingburger” was one of a number of terms used to describe MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s report on Donald Trump‘s 2005 tax return on Tuesday night.

In a segment she hyped up on Twitter, Maddow revealed the contents of two pages from Trump’s tax return for that year.

The return showed that Trump paid 24 per cent in tax on income of $150 million for the 2005 tax year.

That’s about the same amount that a married couple with two incomes totalling around $400,000 might have paid, said David Cay Johnston, the investigative journalist who obtained the return to start with.

Reactions varied on social media — but many expressed disappointment with a segment that was called “not a super compelling reveal.”

Many Twitter users weren’t impressed with Maddow’s report

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cay; david; geraldo; johnston; maddow; rachel; rivera; taxes; trump; trumptaxes
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1 posted on 03/15/2017 2:08:41 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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She is the left wing’s version of what’s his name that kept sending out alerts that he had dirt on Hillary.


2 posted on 03/15/2017 2:10:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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No it’s not the same amount, it’s the same percentage, maybe. Maybe not.


3 posted on 03/15/2017 2:13:57 PM PDT by OKSooner (It's always loaded.)
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AP Top News

Maddow: People disappointed by Trump story expected too much

https://www.apnews.com/5c46d02a56f24645bbbca1c2158a4591/Maddow:-People-disappointed-by-Trump-story-expected-too-much?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APEntertainment

Yeah Geraldo used the same excuse.


4 posted on 03/15/2017 2:14:11 PM PDT by McGruff (#PlugTheLeaks)
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Hey, Rachel... You’re awake, by the way. You’re not having a terrible terrible dream. Also, you’re not dead, you’re not in heaven, and your not in hell, this is your life now... it’s real!


5 posted on 03/15/2017 2:14:12 PM PDT by C210N
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Rachel Maddow roasted on Twitter for ‘nothingburger’ Trump tax return reveal

The left is pi$$ed off because it shows that Trump pays his taxes!

6 posted on 03/15/2017 2:14:40 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Send 0bama and the Clintons to a Black Site IMMEDIATELY for rendition on charges of TREASON!)
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The left’s incessant demands that Trump publicly release his tax returns smacks of jews being forced to drop their pants in the street to see if they're circumcised in 1930’s Berlin.
7 posted on 03/15/2017 2:16:52 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Actually, it’s not nothing .. IT’S A FELONY TO STEAL, AND/OR EXPOSE ANOTHER PERSON’S TAX RETURN.

So, the person who STOLE the 2 pages - from whoever or where ever, HAS COMMITTED A FELONY.

And, the person(s) who displayed possession of the tax return, and exposed the information on the tax return .. committed a FELONY.

So, NBC/MSNBC .. when are the officers going to arrive and arrest your news people who have been displaying A STOLEN tax return of the President of the United States ..??????

SHAME ON YOU ALL. TIME FOR JAIL.


8 posted on 03/15/2017 2:17:51 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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I’ve seen comments elsewhere comparing President Trump to the Road Runner, with the left playing the part of Wile E. Coyote.


9 posted on 03/15/2017 2:19:34 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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That EEEEEvil Trump! He forced that poor, gender uncertain reporter to make a fool of herself!


10 posted on 03/15/2017 2:20:26 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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11 posted on 03/15/2017 2:28:17 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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She'd set the stage with her teaser tweets and she was all locked and loaded, ready to finally cut Trump down to size...AND THEN THIS HAPPENED:


12 posted on 03/15/2017 2:30:10 PM PDT by bigbob
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...and at least in 2005 he was really wealthy. Those were the two canards. He’s not as rich as everyone thinks, and he pays no taxes.


13 posted on 03/15/2017 2:36:57 PM PDT by babble-on
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Perhaps she will become so depressed from all the negative tweets and commit suicide. One can only hope.


14 posted on 03/15/2017 2:41:19 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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15 posted on 03/15/2017 2:46:05 PM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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Nooo! Not “agony of defeat” guy! Slightly OT, how’d you like to be the poor slob who has his worst day ever immortalized for multiple generations in a TV show title sequence?

CC


16 posted on 03/15/2017 2:47:28 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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17 posted on 03/15/2017 2:50:05 PM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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18 posted on 03/15/2017 2:56:58 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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19 posted on 03/15/2017 3:01:57 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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Dyke with a mic.


20 posted on 03/15/2017 3:12:52 PM PDT by canalabamian ("The same things win, that always won..." Coach Paul W. Bryant)
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