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Trump’s Tax Return Wasn’t the Scoop Rachel Maddow Hoped It Would Be

For nearly two years now, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has been itching to tar and feather Donald Trump with damaging information or expository gossip that would embarrass our country’s new president or at least make him unpalatable to the nation’s voters. On Tuesday, March 14, Maddow appeared to have just such a scoop, as she teased on Twitter to draw in ratings.
The only problem? The story was less of a scoop and more simply a piece of virtual non-news because the big piece of information she had — two leaked pages of Trump’s 2005 tax return — contained no “smoking gun” bombshells.
In fact, for all practical purposes, it made Trump look like a law-abiding citizen compared to other high-profile personalities such as ex-President Obama, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and wealthy investor Warren Buffett, who…