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Rachel Maddow Stands Tall And Refuses To Back Down When Threatened By Donald Trump
[FONT SIZE="3"]Rachel Maddow refused to bow to Donald Trump's baseless threats. After the Trump White House had threatened her, the MSNBC host reported on a leak of Trump's 2005 tax return. [/FONT]
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/14/trump-white-house-threatened-rachel-maddow.html
Rachel Maddow refused to bow to Donald Trumps baseless threats. After the Trump White House had threatened her, the MSNBC host reported on a leak of Trumps 2005 tax return.
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Maddow said, The White House confirmed to us tonight that this return is real. They threatened us and said it is illegal for us to publish it. It is not illegal for us to publish it.
Its true that the unauthorized release of federal tax returns is a criminal offense, however Maddow argued on the air that releasing the tax returns was a matter of public interest, given that every single president has done so since Nixon except for this one, who just so happens to be under scrutiny for his foreign ties. Thus MSNBC was exercising its First Amendment right.
Trump promised to release his tax returns if elected, and then once elected had his surrogates announce that no one cared. Polls disagree with the Trump administrations claims on the matter of his tax returns. Americans think they do matter and they want to see them.
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Rachel Maddow Stands Tall And Refuses To Back Down When Threatened By Donald Trump (Original Post)
Bill USA
Mar 2017
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gordianot
(15,237 posts)1. More like bullying than an actual threat.
RoadhogRidesAgain
(165 posts)2. Maybe she should show him what's what
By spending an entire episode talking about all the charity work he did in 2005 that was sent directly by Donald trump. That will really show him
Doreen
(11,686 posts)3. Well, well, well it looks to me
like what she was doing last night was very legit. It now seems to me that the dictator is kinda sorta very upset. If this was something handed over by him he would not be this upset and his lawyer would not be upset either.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)4. He's gonna be upset no matter what. It's his M.O.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)5. How true, how true.