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The Internet’s Reaction to Maddow’s Big ‘Scoop’ on Trump’s Taxes Shows Just How Badly Stunt Backfired

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow set the internet ablaze with anticipation on Tuesday night when she teased the release of President Donald Trump’s taxes. Rachel Maddow MSNBC ✔@maddow BREAKING: We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously). But when the big reveal finally happened, it seemed to fall dreadfully flat. Conservatives and Trump supporters reveled in the major flop, comparing ... Read More

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow set the internet ablaze with anticipation on Tuesday night when she teased the release of President Donald Trump’s taxes.

Rachel Maddow MSNBC
✔@maddow

BREAKING: We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.

(Seriously).

But when the big reveal finally happened, it seemed to fall dreadfully flat. Conservatives and Trump supporters reveled in the major flop, comparing it Geraldo Rivera’s infamous Al Capone vault debacle, while many on the left were also left disappointed by the lackluster scoop.

The two-page tax return from 2005 showed Trump earned $150 million and paid about $38 million in federal taxes. Trump has been accused of paying nothing in taxes in the past. As Independent Journal Review’s Joe Perticone reported, the White House also released details on the tax return while Maddow took her time to reveal the information she possessed.

The reaction on Twitter was brutal. Donald Trump Jr. even got in on the action.

Donald Trump Jr.
✔@DonaldJTrumpJr

Thank you Rachel Maddow for proving to your #Trump hating followers how successful @realDonaldTrump is & that he paid $40mm in taxes! #Taxes

There was a lot of comparing the moment to Al Capone’s empty vault:

Ben Shapiro
✔@benshapiro

Imagine Geraldo’s regret when he opened Al Capone’s vault to find Rachel Maddow’s report on Trump’s taxes.

Congrats Rachel Maddow, you’ve officially eclipsed Geraldo Rivera in most embarrassing TV moment. Worse than Al Capone’s vault. #NotMyPress pic.twitter.com/wILkDfc5Nm

— كافرة ♠ R1es ♠ ༒ (@midnightride20) March 15, 2017

Steve Deace
✔@SteveDeaceShow

Geraldo called, and has invited Rachel Maddow to join him from Al Capone’s secret vault for her next show.

ICYMI: A visual synopsis of Rachel Maddow’s Trump tax scoop tonight… pic.twitter.com/h13vNMPtW9

— Kyle Becker (@ijrviraleditor) March 15, 2017

And countless others piled on:

Ken Ungian @YeahKenny

Rachel Maddow right now. #TRUMPSTAXES #msnbc #trumpstaxreturns #trump

Big Cat
✔@BarstoolBigCat

Trump just played Rachel Maddow so hard. Textbook

Stefan Molyneux
✔@StefanMolyneux

Help! Rachel Maddow’s career has fallen and it can’t get up!

Josh Jordan
✔@NumbersMuncher

Rachel Maddow tonight.

Billy Hallowell
✔@BillyHallowell

BREAKING: Rachel Maddow breaks Guinness Book record for longest-ever non-story told to a horrified cable news audience.

MARK SIMONE
✔@MarkSimoneNY

Rachel Maddow’s next big TV spectacular will be Donald Trumps 1997 dental records. #TrumpTaxReturn

Cloyd Rivers @CloydRivers

Effective tax rates in 2005:
Trump: 25%
Obama: 19.5%
Sanders: 13.5%

Thanks Rachel Maddow for commitin’ a felony for this info. Merica.

Twitter can be a very unforgiving place.

Meanwhile, even CNN’s Van Jones admitted that revealing Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005 made it a “good night” for the president.

Source:ijr.com