Is was just over two years ago that Rachel Maddow sent The Resistance hyperventilating into paper bags with the news that she had in her possession Donald Trump’s tax returns. Remember this?
BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017
Oh lol just have to wait through a few commercial breaks to learn THE FATE OF DEMOCRACY
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) March 15, 2017
This is huge. #Trumptaxreturns @maddow
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) March 15, 2017
The holy grailhttps://t.co/h3in4N1lyK
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) March 14, 2017
You might also remember that although her ratings were through the roof, the revealing of the 2005 tax return was a giant dud: it turned out that Trump paid about $38 million in federal tax in 2005, leaving The New York Times to try to keep the excitement going with this hot take:
By claiming losses, President Trump apparently saved millions of dollars in taxes that he would otherwise have owed https://t.co/94qDk0tctO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 15, 2017
Yeah? Yawn.
Now The New York Times is trying to recapture that magic by revealing that it has 10 years’ worth of Trump’s federal income tax returns; well, figures from the tax returns at least.
JUST POSTED: The New York Times has obtained 10 years of previously unrevealed figures from Donald Trump's federal income-tax returns – from 1985 to 1994. Trump ran up $1.2 billion in core business losses in the decade we examined. LOTS here ? https://t.co/Yc23kj9HEa
— Susanne Craig (@susannecraig) May 7, 2019
The New York Times get its hands on Trump’s tax returns from the mid-80s to the mid-90s and…Trump was hemorrhaging money, not paying taxes, and selling himself as a real estate guru.
In other words, exactly what anyone with a clue thought. https://t.co/Sc7LpoxrLM
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 7, 2019
Trump lost over one billion dollars on his business between 1985-1994.
Considering he bankrupted four casinos, this should come as a surprise to no one. https://t.co/eGEESXgyzq
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) May 8, 2019
Wow. A guy who came back from that could write a book called The Art of the Comeback. https://t.co/Kh16xYwamY
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) May 7, 2019
Oh wow guys, bombshell. Welcome to 2016 GOP primaries. https://t.co/IGSoE9ZODF
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 7, 2019
He’ll never get elected now.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 7, 2019
We were pointing this stuff out in 2015 while CNN was airing his empty podium & the NYT was running op eds about how Ted Cruz would be worse. Great work team
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 7, 2019
WOW that means Hillary is president right?
— Dan Goldwasser (@dgoldwas) May 7, 2019
We kind of miss all the pundits talking about Russian collusion 24/7 — at least that was mildly interesting.
Literally breaking news. From over a quarter century ago.
— Gianni Vitrano (@SicilianoUno) May 7, 2019
"We didn't actually obtain his tax returns but we know a guy who knows a guy who says this info is legit" – The New York Times
— Gavin Hayes (@Gavin_B_Hayes) May 7, 2019
He’s really the only person qualified to run trillion dollar deficits
— Mike Stern (@mls1776) May 7, 2019
Good point.
I was promised Russians and all I got were tax figures.
— I'm To Blame (@im2blame4) May 7, 2019
Um, this is not a secret. He wrote a whole book about how much money he lost during that time.
— Frank Hart (@FrankHartII) May 7, 2019
It was due to him taking his eye off the ball.
The book opens with an anecdote about him seeing a homeless man and realizing that man was worth a billion dollars more than him because he was in so much debt, and he about what he learned from the experience.
But TDS gonna TDS.
— Frank Hart (@FrankHartII) May 7, 2019
In other breaking news: Trump turned those losses into billions of gains.
Still more breaking news: He went on to become president.
— 2of5 (@rlscottrl) May 7, 2019
Narrator: This won't swing one vote. https://t.co/VCWeylpWnx
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) May 7, 2019
Second look at Bill Weld?
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 3, 2019
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