No, because she hasn't not had to retract it as a forgery or fake.
It looks legit.
Of course she has a partisan axe to grind and on the partisanship front she completely fell on her face.
She obviously thought she had a very damning piece of evidence, but apparently she never bothered to check it out before airing it. They had a damned countdown clock running, FFS.
This is a huge failure at due diligence, and should permanently damage what little credibility she had as a "journalist."
Huh? There is no dispute I am aware of that the documents she put forth are genuine, so if anything this makes her MORE credible and should make you even MORE convinced of her ability to report accurate information. What has been said is that perhaps Trump's team leaked the document themselves in order to make him look good but that in no way discredits her. I'm seriously baffled how you think her reporting factually true things makes her less credible.
It doesn't fit her political agenda, that much is sure, but if anything that would once again bolster her credibility if she was willing to publish it. Let's be frank though, it was just a ratings grab. She may have a political ideology but the ideology of ratings comes first.
What makes you believe that the document is genuine? Because the Trump Admin says it is?
It could easily be fakery designed to make Donald look good.
You make good points, assuming the pages are real, then I agree with you 100%.
I was simply going off what others have posted saying that it may be fake.
Doesn't seem likely that the information is fake, it's just that she was dumb enough to get manipulated so easily by the "dumb" orange guy in the white house.
Doesn't seem likely that the information is fake, it's just that she was dumb enough to get manipulated so easily by the "dumb" orange guy in the white house.
It's hard to say that she was dumb enough to be manipulated by him considering that both she and her source explicitly stated on air the possibility that they had been given the documents by Trump. She saw the possibility for good ratings and took them.
Also I'm not aware of too many people who think Trump is stupid. He seems to be lazy, ignorant, and emotionally unstable, but not stupid.
They got something, but hard to tell what it is and why.
Yes, egg on her face.
The audit excuse could very well be a scam, or hes just holding back to drop the legit bomb at some point in frenzy time. One never knows.
The audit excuse could very well be a scam, or hes just holding back to drop the legit bomb at some point in frenzy time. One never knows in political theater.
wait, I thought drumpf wasn't a politician.The audit excuse could very well be a scam, or hes just holding back to drop the legit bomb at some point in frenzy time. One never knows in political theater.
All this bullshit is part of the reason some people are losing, or have lost faith in the media/politics.
How embarrassing for Maddow, and the people who fell for it thinking she had latest and previously unpublicized tax documents. Then for the people who fell for it, to claim that it was Trump who set all this up. Then even worse, claiming that Maddow didn't lose any credibility? Really just sad.
Meanwhile Trump again claiming "FAKE NEWS" because of her Tweet about having his tax documents. Yet he did the same thing about a Tweet claiming Obama had him under surveillance. That's pretty hypocritical of him, posting something not true, or at the very least not proven. He need to put up or shut up. Even if by some miracle its true and he has proof, that was not the way to go about it.
All this bullshit is part of the reason some people are losing, or have lost faith in the media/politics.
I use to listen to her on the radio before she got the MSNBC gig. Folks calling her stupid are just making themselves look silly.
"She attended Stanford University. Maddow earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[20] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[21] She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. She won a Rhodes Scholarship.[22] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics at the University of Oxford.[23] Her thesis is titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons, and her supervisor was Lucia Zedner"
So thats Dr Maddow to you.
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Does Trump owe a bunch of money to Russian oligarchs?
His tax return shows over $9 million in interest income. A quick google showed average interest income rate of approx 5%. Even at 10%, $9M in interest income would indicate $900 million in capital. I guess I'm not like other people, if I had $900 million sitting around I don't think I'd be borrowing money from a bank, Russian or not.
Fern
In 2005, the bank approved a $640 million construction loan so Trump could build his name-sake tower in Chicago. The tower, with dozens of multimillion-dollar condos, broke ground at the height of the real-estate boom. As the project neared completion, the financial crisis hit, sending the global real-estate market crashing. And when part of the loan came due, rather than pay it, Trump sued a lending consortium led by Deutsche Bank for $3 billion.
Force Majeure
His suit argued that the financial crisis was equivalent to an earthquake, triggering a “force majeure” clause, which allows for a payback extension in extraordinary circumstances. Deutsche Bank countersued, claiming Trump owed a $40 million payment, which was a personal guarantee on the debt. The two later settled and, surprisingly, continued doing business together.
He also has two mortgages against his Trump National Doral Miami resort and a loan against his tower in Chicago. All four debts come due in 2023 and 2024. Garten said the Chicago loan no longer has Trump’s personal guarantee because the project has been completed.