When New York Times reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner published their exhaustive, gazillion-word expose on the Trump family tax practices last week, there was only one word for it.
“Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo!
By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th “bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one of the few to deserve the title. The Times story is an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting and a monument to the kind of work we all should be doing.
The parts I found most interesting were less about...
“Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo!
By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th “bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one of the few to deserve the title. The Times story is an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting and a monument to the kind of work we all should be doing.
The parts I found most interesting were less about...
- 10/10/2018
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show Wednesday with a shaggy dog bombshell, telling the world's longest joke as he spoofed Rachel Maddow's drawn-out reveal of part of President Trump's 2005 tax returns.
Mimicking Maddow's patter and hand gestures, Colbert declared that he held in his hand a copy of a joke connected with Trump. After a prolonged prelude, he arrived at the set-up – "Why did the chicken cross the road?" – before digressing into an extended discussion on the domestication of chickens and their potential connections to Russian oligarchs.
Colbert...
Mimicking Maddow's patter and hand gestures, Colbert declared that he held in his hand a copy of a joke connected with Trump. After a prolonged prelude, he arrived at the set-up – "Why did the chicken cross the road?" – before digressing into an extended discussion on the domestication of chickens and their potential connections to Russian oligarchs.
Colbert...
- 3/16/2017
- Rollingstone.com
David Cay Johnston, the investigative reporter who received two pages of President Donald Trump‘s 2005 tax returns and shared them on The Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday night, suggested that it’s “entirely possible” that the documents came directly from the Trump administration.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist said that he anonymously received Trump’s tax returns from 2005, which revealed that the president paid $38 million in federal income taxes on a reported income of $150 million in 2005, in the mail on Monday.
“By the way, let me point out that it’s entirely possible that Donald Trump sent this to me. Donald Trump has,...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist said that he anonymously received Trump’s tax returns from 2005, which revealed that the president paid $38 million in federal income taxes on a reported income of $150 million in 2005, in the mail on Monday.
“By the way, let me point out that it’s entirely possible that Donald Trump sent this to me. Donald Trump has,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to accuse President Trump of leaking his own tax return to David Cay Johnston, who unveiled it on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Wednesday night. The reason, according to Scarborough? “To distract from Russia hearings and the Trumpcare meltdown.” This one tax return is not bad for him because he cherry picked one return from over a decade ago and had it leaked to the press. https://t.co/P5cMuApGVe — Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) March 15, 2017 The Trump camp released one positive tax return to distract from Russia hearings and the Trumpcare meltdown.
- 3/15/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
President Trump was busy on Wednesday morning as he took to Twitter to bash NBC News as “fake news” and pondered the outcry if Snoop Dogg had fired shots at President Obama in a music video. On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s “The Rachael Maddow Show” disappointed many viewers after teasing “Trump tax returns” that ended up being only two pages from his 2005 return that basically prove he’s a rich guy who paid a lot of money in taxes one year a decade ago. Pulitzer Prize-winning tax reporter David Cay Johnston said he received a copy of Trump’s 1040 long form in.
- 3/15/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Donald Trump is finally coughing up his tax returns, at least in part ... and says he paid $38 million in 2005. The president released the financial info under pressure from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow ... who promised to broadcast the 2005 data on her show Tuesday evening. Half an hour before she went on air the White House revealed Trump paid the $38 mil on $150 million income. Trump's release comes grudgingly. The White House added, "Despite this substantial income figure and tax paid,...
- 3/15/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Why does the leaked Donald Trump tax return that reporter David Cay Johnston unveiled on “The Rachel Maddow Show” include a stamp that says “Client Copy”? We don’t know the answer, but we do know the question will fuel a theory — offered up by Johnston on the air — that Trump or one of his representatives may have leaked the return. Johnston told Maddow the document — a long-form 1040 form from 2005 — appeared in his mailbox. A screen shot by Bloomberg News reporter Sahil Kapur shows a stamp on the bottom left corner of page 2 of the two-page...
- 3/15/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Apparently reporters aren’t the only ones interested in Donald Trump’s tax returns. As MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced she had posted Trump’s 2005 federal income tax return on her site, Maddowblog.com, and on DCReport.org, the site run by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, both crashed presumabily under the influx of web traffic. On Tuesday afternoon Maddow announced on Twitter that she had obtained Trump’s tax return, adding, “(Seriously)” to emphasize the tweet was not a joke. Also Read: How MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Obtained President Trump's 2005 Tax Return The big scoop, which was snagged by Johnston,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” partially uncovered one of the biggest mysteries in the American political world: President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Well, at least Trump’s 1040 form from 2005. The return was the centerpiece of tonight’s episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which featured an appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who first obtained the document. The president has refused to release his tax returns despite months of urging from various media outlets, political opponents and the public. It’s been a long journey that included over one million people signing a petition to see them released.
- 3/15/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow didn’t uncover Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns, but her show did manage to do the next best thing: Find someone who had. The show landed an exclusive with Pulitzer Prize-winning tax reporter David Cay Johnston, who said he received Trump’s 1040 long form in the mail. Despite a White House statement that it was illegal to publish stolen returns, Maddow and Johnston said it was perfectly legal. Why would someone give the documents to Johnston? It’s clear that he wanted them, and would understand them: He’s the author of “The Making of Donald Trump...
- 3/15/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
It was the moment that set the Twitterverse ablaze (see ya, #blizzard2017!) on Tuesday: Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC had obtained President Donald Trump‘s tax returns, suggesting that all would be revealed live on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Breaking: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm Et. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017
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Maddow then followed that tweet with another, clarifying which documents her show actually obtained:
What we've got is from 2005… the President's 1040 form… details to come tonight 9Pm Et, MSNBC.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC...
Breaking: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm Et. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017
VideosFox News’ Shepard Smith Goes Off on Trump: ‘We Are Not Fools’
Maddow then followed that tweet with another, clarifying which documents her show actually obtained:
What we've got is from 2005… the President's 1040 form… details to come tonight 9Pm Et, MSNBC.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC...
- 3/15/2017
- TVLine.com
David Cay Johnston, the reporter who released Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” told Maddow on Tuesday that they may have come from Trump himself. “I think I have to include that in the list of possibilities of where they came from,” said Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning tax reporter who, according to Maddow, received the documents in his mailbox. “It’s entirely possible that Donald sent this to me,” Johnston told Maddow. “Donald Trump has over the years leaked all sorts of things, the very sleazy girl-on-girl pictures of the first lady in the New York Post may.
- 3/15/2017
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
It was the bombshell heard ’round the Internet: Rachel Maddow posted on Twitter at 7:36 p.m. Et that her show had tracked down a copy of Donald Trump’s long-mysterious tax returns, and that she would reveal the news on Tuesday night’s edition of her MSNBC show.
Later, she added that the returns were Trump’s 1040 form from 2005:
Breaking: We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm Et. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017
What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight 9Pm Et, MSNBC.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 15, 2017
The two-page 1040 form didn’t reveal much, other than showing that Trump paid $38 million in taxes, with a write down of $103 million, and his income added up to $150 million in that year. (Interestingly, much of that income may have come from NBC – specifically, “The Apprentice,” which launched in 2004.)
According to Maddow,...
Later, she added that the returns were Trump’s 1040 form from 2005:
Breaking: We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm Et. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017
What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight 9Pm Et, MSNBC.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 15, 2017
The two-page 1040 form didn’t reveal much, other than showing that Trump paid $38 million in taxes, with a write down of $103 million, and his income added up to $150 million in that year. (Interestingly, much of that income may have come from NBC – specifically, “The Apprentice,” which launched in 2004.)
According to Maddow,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
David Cay Johnston, the reporter who obtained Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns and shared them Tuesday on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” won a Pulitzer in 2001 for his coverage of loopholes in the U.S. tax code. Johnston, who was working for the New York Times at the time, said the returns showed up in his mailbox. It’s clear why someone might have chosen him to receive the records: Johnston won the $7,500 prize for what the Pulitzers described as “his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
- 3/15/2017
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Politico published a lengthy report yesterday that claims presumptive Gop nominee Donald Trump has “a pattern of business dealings with mob figures.” The story is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has been investigating ties between Trump and the Mafia for “years.” The former Atlantic City reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer has also published a book, “Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business.” Johnston claims that over the years he has “encountered multiple threads linking Trump to organized crime.” Here are the five most damning items contained in the report.
- 5/23/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
C. David Heymann's posthumously released account Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio's torrid marriage was favorably reviewed after its July release, but Newsweek's David Cay Johnston is now contesting the authenticity of the book and much of the author's entire biographical catalog. “For 30 years, I watched with astonishment and then bemusement as major publishers gave C. David Heymann big advances,” Johnston wrote in a story printed Thursday in Newsweek. ”Respected media outlets–The New Yorker, The New York Times, People, Vanity Fair, USA Today and NPR–praised and promoted his books,” See video: Jon Stewart's ‘Rosewater’ Trailer Shows...
- 8/29/2014
- by Travis Reilly
- The Wrap
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