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‘Sleazy Porn’: Reporter Behind Maddow’s Failed Tax Scoop Slut Shames Melania Trump

Amanda Prestigiacomo

On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow channeled her inner Geraldo Rivera to bring us Al Capone’s Vault 2.0. Maddow, who hilariously refers to herself as a “journalist,” brought on reporter David Cay Johnson to reveal President Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return, only to inadvertently reveal that Trump is an upstanding citizen who paid a whopping $36 million in income tax that year alone.

In other words, Maddow’s attempt to paint Trump as a tax-shielding Scrooge McDuck with nefarious Russian ties was an epic fail.

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