Discussion: White House Releases Tax Info Ahead of Maddow Exclusive

The best part for me would be that Trump just might be taken out by a lesbian. His head would explode!

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Donā€™t buy the framing or spin. The WH says it is illegal for Maddow to publish the Minority Presidentā€™s tax returns. That is NOT true.

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Well, I think I can safetly can put away my stash of klonopin for the time being.

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Turns out what MSNBC has is relative piffle

I want him strung up by his Buster Browns

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True, but we do need more than two pages. Heck, I donā€™t make what he does and my 1040 is over 50 pages. The rest, for now, is all speculation. We cannot let this get buried!!!

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David Cay Johnston mentioned Trumpā€™s long history of leaking material about himself when he thought it would serve his interests of the moment. Gotta wonder if releasing a little bit from a year thatā€™s not a total embarrassment is just a distraction from the horrendous CBO report.

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But waitā€¦just a few days ago dt was all in a huff over leakers

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You mean you couldnā€™t care less. :wink:

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https://twitter.com/jtylerconway/status/841811142578176000

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I think you really are on to something with that idea. Trumpcare is going up in smoke and its all anyone has been talking about. TRUMPcare is the new dumpster fireā€¦and soā€¦we have 2 pages of 10 year old tax info that basically tells us very little.

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Perhaps, next week, we will be regaled with Trumpā€™s missing dry-cleaning tickets from Sparkle Cleaners.

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I hate to say it, but for all these folks scolding the rest of the media that we all tend to get sidetracked by Trumpā€™s shiny objects, I think Maddow and Mr. Johnston have been duped. They really should have waited until the other 200 pages came in the mail first before releasing this as a big story.

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It was a not-so-big nothingburger. Mistake to have hyped it so much.

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Itā€™s only the first two pages, AFAIK, so of course thereā€™s nothing that interesting there. Although it would be interesting to know how he managed to only owe 4 percent on $150 million until the AMT kicked in. Drip. Drip.

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Bad idea. They made Trump look good, and now they can say, ā€œSEE, thatā€™s good enough, now donā€™t bother me again with this taxes shit.ā€ Big disappointment.

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Yup.

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Agreed. There isnā€™t quite enough there there. I donā€™t want to believe that DT would be behind this, but it would make sense to see the mainstream media fall all over themselves at his direction to make themselves look bad yet again.

Where is the other g-ddamned shoe?!?!?!?!?

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I will say this: that must have made the White House collectively shit its pants. Having them nervous is always amusing. At the very least this means stuff can leak.

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Not if it was an inside job. If it was a set-up, they have been laughing all night.

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I think itā€™s progress.

The real story is that the Republicans in Washington still donā€™t have the cojones to request the whole enchilada, which they could do whenever they want.

Maybe now, to distract from the GACHA trainwreck?

Maybe next week, after the Russia hearing starts?

ā€œThere is a crack, a crack, in everything ā€¦ thatā€™s how the light gets inā€

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