BREAKING : Fake News CNN Slams Fake News MSNBC for BOTCHING Trump “Tax Scoop”
It’s a battle of the fake news giants!
CNN is calling out MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for overhyping and then botching the so-called Trump tax scoop.
Maddow attempted to frame the tax revelation as an “exclusive scoop,” but was then scooped herself, when the White House released the information, stating Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005.
Whoopsie.
CNN, along with top Hillary campaign chiefs were devastated at the news and blasted Maddow for her clumsy handling of Trump’s taxes.
From CNN Money
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow teed up a major scoop about President Donald Trump’s taxes on Tuesday night — only to end up disappointing many in the political-media establishment with a report that was widely characterized as overhyped.
The big reveal, which Maddow did not get to until after a lengthy monologue and commercial break, showed that in 2005 Trump paid $38 million in federal income taxes on a reported income of $150 million. That information was based on two pages of an IRS 1040 form supplied to journalist David Cay Johnston, who was a guest on Maddow’s show.
By the time Maddow got around to sharing that information, it had already been supplied by the White House and published on The Daily Beast, where Johnston is a columnist. Even so, the documents left the public with more questions than answers.
The decision to hype the scoop — Maddow first tweeted her all-caps “BREAKING” alert at 7:36 p.m. ET — disappointed many journalists, who felt that Maddow had undermined legitimate inquiry into Trump’s tax returns.
It also disappointed Democrats, including Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign press secretary Brian Fallon. Before Maddow’s broadcast, Fallon retweeted the breaking news alert and called it “the holy grail.” After Maddow showed her hand, Fallon wrote: “Dems should return focus to Trumpcare tomorrow & the millions it will leave uninsured, not get distracted by two pages from ’05 tax return.”
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Hahaha, Fake News CNN, calling out the other Fake News MSNBC just love it! Madcow should be jailed and fired and the networks of Fake News need to be sued.
There is the saying Love is Blind…there is another, Blind Hatred. With politics we all should be careful neither of those apply to us. Rachel Maddow looked very pitiful last night.
You would think these “journalists” would be tired of being Trumps little beyotches