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March 16, 2017 at 12:36 pm (This post was last modified: March 25, 2017 at 4:46 pm by Tiberius.
Edit Reason: Restored an inaccurate quote.
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(March 16, 2017 at 11:42 am)A Theist Wrote:
From all the bitching and moaning from the Left and the Never Trumpers for President Trump to release his taxes, Rachel Maddow delivered the great bombshell, President Trump's 2005 Tax Returns! The great bombshell hype? President Trump paid 25% income taxes totaling $38 million, (The New York Times once suggested that Trump may not have paid any income tax for 18 years). Maddow's bombshell didn't even fizzle. It was a dud.
Quote:In just a second we’re going to show you exactly what it is we’ve got,” she said, before launching, instead, into a 20-minute monologue. Maddow seemed uncharacteristically nervous as she wended her way though what could kindly be described as context and which I am unkindly describing as word salad, a long meander that was difficult to follow even without the distracting promise of a revelatory tax return at its end.
The monologue started contextually enough, with a long-winded skewering of Trump’s refusal to share his tax returns that touched on Richard Nixon, the Clintons, and his unaudited tax forms, before veering off conspiratorially. “Whether or not you are a supporter of Donald Trump,” Maddow said, “It ought to give you pause that his explanations [for not releasing his tax returns] have never made any factual sense. … When you get an excuse from them that doesn't make sense, you have to look for another reason. What’s the real explanation? Well, choose your own adventure.” She then launched into a long hypothetical about a particular Russian oligarch’s possible relationship to Trump that touched on Florida real estate, Deutsche Bank, and Preet Bharara that Trump’s tax returns—though not, as it would turn out, the ones she actually had—could conceivably clear up.
The longer Maddow went on, ever deeper into a conspiratorial thicket, the clearer it became that whatever tax returns Maddow had, they weren’t as juicy as the ones she was talking about.
After the great bombshell tax dud Maddow became the target of ridicule
Even when your fuhrer tries to spin the news he manages to fit both feet into his mouth and his head up his arse. 86% of the tax you're crowing about is tax he was forced to pay through a law he wants to scrap.
