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Sample 03-15-17 Did Trump Leak His Own Taxes & Setup MSNBC?

The Randi Rhodes Show

Randi Rhodes

Business, Government

4.8772 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Did Trump Leak His Own Taxes? Did Trump Just Set Up MSNBC? Comey About To Go On Record.

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Randy Rhodes. Here's a clip from our show and go to Randy Rhodes.com for the whole thing and a podcast. Buy a Stinking podcast. Believe me.

0:07.6

Knock knock. Who's there? It's a segment of your imagination.

0:11.1

Randy Road Show. Turn up your mind.

0:16.5

What I have here is a copy of Donald Trump's tax returns. We have his federal tax return for one year for 2005.

0:24.6

I believe this is the only set of the president's federal taxes that reporters have ever gotten a hold of.

0:30.6

What we have are these two pages front and back from the same 1040 form that you might have filled out when you file your taxes.

0:38.3

And in terms of what's on here, let me give you the basics.

0:41.3

Aside from the numbers being large, these pages are straightforward.

0:45.3

He paid $38 million, looks like $38 million in taxes.

0:50.3

He took a big write-down of $103 million. More on that later. If you add up the lines

0:57.8

for income, he made more than $150 million in that. All right. It's the elephant in the room.

1:04.2

I guess we have to address it, don't we? Were we trolled? Was she trolled? I mean, who trolled who last night?

1:17.8

This release of these two pages, 1040 forms from 2005, 11 years ago, shows Donald Trump in a very good light.

1:29.5

It shows that Donald Trump, you know, made $150 million.

1:33.3

You know, the White House released some statement saying,

1:35.0

he's the most successful business man.

1:36.7

No, I think health care or health insurance company CEOs and, you know,

1:41.8

Rex Tillerson, oil companies, I think they do better than Donald Trump does

1:45.3

in 2005, you know, 150 mil. He's a piker, right? He's a piker is what it is. You're a piker.

1:51.6

But, okay, so, you know, he responds to her and says, you know, it's illegal what you did. And it's,

2:00.7

it's not illegal. What I just, okay, but so now

2:05.0

the people in the chattering class think that Donald Trump himself leaked. And so did David K.

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