title: RACHEL MADDOW Tries To Embarrass Trump By Exposing 2005 Tax Returns…BACKFIRES Big-Time..Gets DESTROYED On Twitter!
text: Here s Maddow s tweet announcing her  bombshell  revelation on her show:BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.(Seriously).  Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017Just last week, the New York Times  columnist Nicholas Kristoff urged IRS employees Sunday to break the law, and leak Donald Trump s tax returns to his publication:  If you re in IRS and have a certain president s tax return that you d like to leak, my address is: NYT, 620 Eighth Ave, NY NY 10018,  Nicholas Kristof wrote on Twitter.But if you're in IRS and have a certain president's tax return that you'd like to leak, my address is: NYT, 620 Eighth Ave, NY NY 10018. https://t.co/ujYe100Tn9  Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 6, 2017As the Hill reminds us, the release of an individual s unauthorized tax returns is a felony. While reporters who publish illegally obtained information that they did not solicit are traditionally not prosecuted   recall that in September 2016 the NYT released an old Trump tax return without legal consequences- the legal picture becomes less clear if the reporters are involved in the leaking of the information.  Zero HedgeHere s what Kristof of the New York Times had to say about the release of Trump s 2005 tax returns:So Trump apparently paid 25% income tax rate overall in federal taxes in 2005. Low, but higher than Romney or many finance tycoons.  Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 15, 2017Here s what the rest of America (including Donald Trump Jr.) had to say about Rachel Maddow s ridiculous attempt to embarrass President Trump.This awesome tweet was from Joe Walsh of Walsh Freedom:Rachel Maddow revealed that Trump paid more taxes in '05 than most people will pay in their entire lives.What ground-breaking journalism.  Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 15, 2017Former Governor Mike Huckabee was having a blast on Twitter tonight:Tomorrow night Rachel Maddow solves the Kennedy Assassinaton. Will name Oswald as assassin. Don't miss REAL JOURNALISM!  Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) March 15, 2017https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/841826865169887232There was even a tweet from the President s son Donald Jr, thanking Maddow for proving to her Trump hating followers how successful Donald Trump is and that he paid $40 million in taxes! Thank you Rachel Maddow for proving to your #Trump hating followers how successful @realDonaldTrump is & that he paid $40mm in taxes! #Taxes  Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 15, 2017From Trump s Director of Social Media Dan Scavino:Thank you Rachel @Maddow! While you embarrassed yourself tonight (FACT) please note, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! pic.twitter.com/r9Dl1hbJ0M  Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) March 15, 2017Jeremy Nolt thanks Maddow for the reminder that Hillary lied to the American people when she said Trump didn t pay his taxes:Rachel Maddow just proved that Hillary lied to the American people when she said Trump didn't pay his taxes. #ThankYouMaddow #TrumpTaxReturn  Jeremy Nolt (@RealJeremyNolt) March 15, 2017Another reminder of the  felony  Maddow committed:https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/841838822581141504And from the always hilarious conservative Cloyd Rivers:Effective tax rates in 2005:Trump: 25%Obama: 19.5%Sanders: 13.5%Thanks Rachel Maddow for commitin' a felony for this info. Merica.  Cloyd Rivers (@CloydRivers) March 15, 2017A reminder of the hypocrisy and the idiocy of Bernie Sanders remarks about Trump s tax returns:President Trump 2005 Tax Rate: 25%Bernie Sanders 2014 Tax Rate: 13.5% pic.twitter.com/b2mRepMc0h  Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) March 15, 2017Rachel Maddow single-handedly gave every Hillary lover in America hope, then Trump smashed it by releasing his 2005 taxes.#TrumpTaxReturn  #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) March 15, 2017And then finally, Conservative Thinker thanks Maddow for helping Trump to get re-elected in 2020. #MAGA!Rachel Maddow just revealed that #TrumpsTaxReturns show he paid $38,000,000 taxes in 2005. She just got Mr. Trump re-elected in 2020! #MAGA  Conservative Thinker (@Conservative_OK) March 15, 2017