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The Daily Beast:
Report: Trump's 2005 Taxes Revealed — Donald Trump earned more than $150 million in the year 2005—and paid just a small percentage of that in regular federal income taxes. Daily Beast contributor David Cay Johnston has obtained what appear to be the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal …
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David Cay Johnston / DCReport:
DCREPORT EXCLUSIVE: Trump Earned $153 Million In 2005; He Paid $36.6 Million In Taxes — Ten Years After His Casino Business Failed, He Was Still Writing Off Losses — In 2005, Donald J. Trump married model Melanija Knavs, his third wife. That year, the real-estate mogul …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, IJR, Mother Jones and Mediaite
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
WH releases Trump tax info ahead of MSNBC report — The White House on Tuesday night preemptively released some details of President Trump's income and taxes he paid in 2005 as MSNBC teased leaked documents ahead of an evening broadcast. — Trump reported $150 million in income …
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Politico, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Trump made $150 million in 2005 and paid $38 million in federal taxes — The White House said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump paid $38 million in federal income taxes in 2005 — on $150 million in earnings — offering a small glimpse at the president's personal finances, which Trump has so far kept almost entirely private.
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ABC News, Townhall.com, Scared Monkeys, Axios and CANNONFIRE
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger — MSNBC host Rachel Maddow spent hours touting a massive scoop: She — or more accurately veteran investigative reporter David Cay Johnston — had gotten her hands on President Donald Trump's 2005 federal tax return.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Big Trump tax returns “Scoop” flopped, bigly. — Rachel Maddow has a history of claiming big scoops which then flop. — There was the debunked 2012 big scoop about supposed GOP wrongdoing in Michigan. And the 2014 big scoop that the Koch Brothers were behind Florida groups pushing drug testing …
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Associated Press:
TRUMP EARNED $153M AND PAID $36.5M IN TAXES IN 2005 — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earned $153 million and paid $36.5 million in income taxes in 2005, paying a roughly 25 percent effective tax rate thanks to a tax he has since sought to eliminate, according to highly sought-after tax documents disclosed Tuesday night.
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Jay Yarow / CNBC:
Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow
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The Week, The Big Lead, Mediaite, The Guardian and BizPac Review
Willa Paskin / Slate:
Rachel Maddow Turned a Scoop on Donald Trump's Taxes Into a Cynical, Self-Defeating Spectacle
Rachel Maddow Turned a Scoop on Donald Trump's Taxes Into a Cynical, Self-Defeating Spectacle
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RedState, The Week, BizPac Review, CNNMoney, The Hill, The Daily Caller, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Deadline, Vox and New York's PIX11
Ben Kew / Breitbart:
Epic Fail: Rachel Maddow Mocked After Dragging Out Trump Tax ‘Scoop’
Epic Fail: Rachel Maddow Mocked After Dragging Out Trump Tax ‘Scoop’
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Telegraph, Vox, BizPac Review, Mediaite, RedState and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show
Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show
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Business Insider, NBC News, The Week, The Daily Caller and Death and Taxes
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Oops! MSNBC Reveals Trump Paid 25% Tax Rate - Socialist Bernie Sanders Paid 13% Tax Rate
Oops! MSNBC Reveals Trump Paid 25% Tax Rate - Socialist Bernie Sanders Paid 13% Tax Rate
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The American Mirror, Daily Wire and Geller Report
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005, the White House says
Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005, the White House says
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New York Times, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Mediaite, BizPac Review, NBC News and Power Line
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
It turns out Donald Trump didn't avoid income taxes for 18 years, after all
It turns out Donald Trump didn't avoid income taxes for 18 years, after all
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The Guardian, Business Insider, AOL, The Atlantic and ABC News
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump loyalists sound alarm over ‘RyanCare,’ endangering health bill — A simmering rebellion of conservative populists loyal to President Trump is further endangering the GOP health-care push, with a chorus of influential voices suspicious of the proposal warning the president to abandon it.
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Say House Health Bill Won't Pass Without Changes — Concerns mounted after independent report showed millions would be uninsured — WASHINGTON—Republican senators, alarmed by a nonpartisan report showing millions would lose insurance under the GOP health-care plan …
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New York Times, Axios and Political Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Voters wary of GOP health care bill
Poll: Voters wary of GOP health care bill
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Political Wire, The Week and The Daily Caller
John Wagner / Washington Post:
The cost of failure on health care? It may be the rest of Trump's agenda.
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The Atlantic
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Close Trump friend says ditch Paul Ryan's plan and embrace universal health care
Close Trump friend says ditch Paul Ryan's plan and embrace universal health care
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Politico, Newsmax, The Week, Raw Story, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Mediaite, Hot Air, TheBlaze and twitchy.com
CNN:
Senator: Comey to say whether FBI probing Russia, Trump campaign by Wednesday — Senator: Comey to go public on Russia probe — (CNN)Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Tuesday that FBI Director James Comey promised to tell him Wednesday whether the FBI is investigating ties between Russia and the campaign of President Donald Trump.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sen. Whitehouse: Comey may confirm FBI Russia investigation on Wednesday
Sen. Whitehouse: Comey may confirm FBI Russia investigation on Wednesday
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New York Magazine
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Spokesman Is ‘Very Confident’ Wiretapping Evidence Will Emerge
Trump Spokesman Is ‘Very Confident’ Wiretapping Evidence Will Emerge
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Political Wire
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump rejects push to oust NSC aide — President Donald Trump has overruled a decision by his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, to sideline a key intelligence operative who fell out of favor with some at the Central Intelligence Agency, two sources told POLITICO.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘People are scared’: Paranoia seizes Trump's White House — A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies—inside their own government. — In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described …
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon and the Making of an Economic Nationalist — The controversial White House counselor says his father's 2008 financial trauma helped crystallize his antiglobalist views and led to a political hardening; 'I'm going to be totally wiped out' — Steve Bannon has played a lead role in honing Donald Trump's message.
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New York Times:
Neil Gorsuch Has Web of Ties to Secretive Billionaire — WASHINGTON — The publicity-shy billionaire Philip F. Anschutz inherited an oil and gas firm and built it into an empire that has sprawled into telecommunications, railroads, real estate, resorts, sports teams, stadiums …
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Daily Express:
Dutch election polls LIVE: Updates as Geert Wilders takes on Mark Rutte in Netherlands — AS Geert Wilders' election campaign enters its very final hours, here are all the latest updates, polls and breaking news from the Netherlands. — Up to 13 million Dutch people are getting ready …
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
WEATHER SERVICE DECIDED LAST MINUTE NOT TO CUT SNOW FORECAST — WASHINGTON (AP) — Before the first snow fell, federal meteorologists realized there was a good chance the late-winter storm wasn't going to produce giant snow totals in big Northeast cities as predicted.
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Outside the Beltway
Greg Hinz / Chicago Business:
Roskam blinks on Ryancare — A key member of Illinois' congressional delegation is signaling for the first time that he may be open to significant changes in the Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan being pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump.
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Michael F. Cannon / Cato Institute:
CBO: Full Repeal Would Cover More People than House GOP's ObamaCare-Lite Bill
CBO: Full Repeal Would Cover More People than House GOP's ObamaCare-Lite Bill
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The Daily Caller, Bloomberg and Hit & Run
Alastair Gale / Wall Street Journal:
When the Children Crashed Dad's BBC Interview: The Family Speaks — In their first interview, Korea expert Robert Kelly and his wife Kim Jung-A describe the circumstances, chaos, and global reaction to their now-infamous home-office Skype catastrophe; ‘she was in a hippity-hoppity mood’
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CNN:
Justice to announce charges in Yahoo account hack — The DOJ and San Francisco FBI office have both scheduled news conferences for tomorrow on undisclosed topics — Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice is set to make the formal announcement of charges tomorrow against hackers …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
O'Malley tests 2020 waters with Iowa poll — Donald Trump is only in his second month in the White House, but already one Democrat is polling his party's Iowa caucus-goers ahead of a possible 2020 run for the presidency. — The leadership PAC of former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley commissioned …
