Trump Decries MSNBC Tax Reveal As 'FAKE NEWS' After WH Confirms Info

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published MARCH 15, 2017, 7:31 AM EDT

After reporter David Cay Johnston revealed President Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show Tuesday night, Trump tried to delegitimize the report in an early-morning tweet on Wednesday.

Link to tweet

However, the White House had confirmed the numbers in the tax return hours earlier.

Before Maddow and Johnston revealed Trump's tax records on air, the White House preemptively issued a statement saying that the President earned $150 million and paid $38 million in income taxes in 2005.

"You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago," the statement from the White House read.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-tax-returns-fake-news

[Vinca]

1. Another round of Don's diversion.

Isn't Comey supposed to give testimony today that isn't confined to "closed doors?" Odds are pretty good he'll say Trump is full of shit with his Obama wire tapping claim.

[Coventina]

2. Sorry Trump, David Cay Johnston is not "a reporter, who nobody ever heard of"

He happens to have Pulitzer Prize, you ass-munch.

[thesquanderer]

3. The only reporters' names he knows...

...are the ones he sees on TV.

[Heather MC]

4. Trump released his own taxes to change the topic

About wire tapping which was designed to get people to stop calling for Pete Sessions resignation.

It's working

[Kimchijeon]

5. Probably.

Just some bits of tax returns, just enough to be a diversion.

[Maeve]

6. Well, his tweets aren't getting the mileage they used to

He has to do SOMETHING or people might not talk about him!