Rachel Maddow's over-hyped, incompetent, and totally incoherent reporting of Donald Trump's 2005 federal tax return shows yet again how easily tax matters can be readily distorted for political gain, especially by the left.
This time, however, the gambit blew up in her face. Maddow is taking a lot of heat for her disastrous (for her and her agenda) and very public disclosure that Donald Trump indeed paid tens of millions of dollars in federal taxes in 2005 (and at a far higher rate than anyone on the left expected). However, in reality Trump's federal tax situation is even more incongruent with left-wing perceptions than she realizes, or has been reported.
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