Eric Trump Blasts Leak Of His Dad's Taxes As 'Third World' Practice

[DonViejo]

By ESME CRIBB Published MARCH 19, 2017, 1:48 PM EDT

Eric Trump on Sunday blasted whoever was behind a leak of his father's tax returns, calling it a "dangerous" and "third world" practice.

"Just think about how dangerous that is, how third world that is of a practice," Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo. "Just think about it."

"It's really sad that we're in an environment where tax returns are leaked by whoever it may be," he said. "When personal information is put out by people for political agendas. As a civilian, it's actually scary to me."

His brother Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday night went on a tweetstorm thanking MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for revealing part of their father's 2005 tax returns on air.

"Watching the media aka #fakenews implode on tv now because they got what they wanted is simply awesome," he tweeted, using the hashtag #ThankYouMaddow.

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[IdiotsforPalin]

1. I forget, is that Uday or Qusay?

[JenniferJuniper]

2. The dumber looking one.

[dchill]

6. OK, but that's a close call, don't you think?

[democrank]

5. Uday or Qusay? One way to find out.....

Google Something like------ MULTIMILLIONAIRE BROTHERS SLAUGHTER ANIMALS FOR FUN, and you'll probably see several photos with their names attached.

[dalton99a]

3. Thus spake the son of a Third World despot.

[cilla4progress]

4. Idiot

Son

[tanyev]

7. No, what's "Third World" is refusing to follow the precedent of decades

of presidential candidates who released theirs. What's even more Third World is how the GOP and much of the media enabled it.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. So the White House Crime

Syndicate is getting nervous. Another verbal attempt at distraction from what is happening to the Crime Family Leader. Daddy is in deep shit and they know it.

[Doreen]

9. When your vile piece of shit daddy

turns the country into a "third world" county what the fuck do you expect you equally vile piece of shit?

[sharedvalues]

10. Better headline: Eric Trump tries to divert corruption scrutiny

Eric Trump gave this interview so the media would print his words. He's trying to distract attention from the corruption and financial crimes he and his Dad are committing.
Stop echoing lies, media!


(Yes I realize this is TPM. But it's a reporter there. I don't think Josh Marshall would ever have used this headline that plays into the hands of Trump)

[world wide wally]

11. Yeah right.

Your old man is the one who leaked them because he is trying to make America third world
MA3WA

[not fooled]

12. Says the beneficiary

of banana-republic levels of nepotism.

[GeoWilliam750]

13. Please help me remember

Which of President Trump's children were in Westchester, apparently near the place from which the "Client Copy" of the tax return was sent?

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Well, yes, that's how Third World journalists deal with Third World dictators.

It's effective, and it's applicable. It just shouldn't be necessary.