Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Up A Storm Thanking Maddow For Airing Tax Return

Donald Trump Jr., son of President-elect Donald Trump, looks out from an elevator as he arrives at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday night thanked MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for revealing part of his father President Donald Trump’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. “Who else knew that Rachel Maddow was a Republican???”

Trump refused to release his tax returns throughout the 2016 campaign and after his election. He claimed that he was under audit, but admitted in September 2016 that he could release his taxes at any time but implied he saw no political advantage to doing so.

Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump is still under audit and would not say whether Trump will release his taxes for the current year.

The White House nevertheless confirmed the numbers in the tax return moments before Maddow’s show aired on Tuesday night.

After reporter David Cay Johnston revealed the returns on Maddow’s show, Trump said that Johnston’s account of finding the documents in his mailbox was “FAKE NEWS.”

“Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, ‘went to his mailbox’ and found my tax returns?” Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning.

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  1. "I don't know much" —Donald Trump Jr.

    ← insert joke here

  2. Lol at the Trumps validating that they released these tax returns as a distraction.

  3. Avatar for cd cd says:

    Hey asshole, what people really want to know is how much your daddy owes to the russian mob, 'cause you said you guys were taking on russian money like the titanic taking on water

    go fuck yourself you slimeball who would be nothing without your grandaddy’s money

  4. So much maturity and real class in that Trump family. How about another trophy-hunt safari?

  5. Wait, so trump says it’s fake news but Junior says it’s real? So which is it? Could you lying bastards please make up your minds?

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