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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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Willa Paskin / Slate:
Rachel Maddow Turned a Scoop on Donald Trump's Taxes Into a Cynical, Self-Defeating Spectacle — At 7:36 pm Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow tweeted “BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously),” sending the internet into a frenzy of theorizing.
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.
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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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Jay Yarow / CNBC:
Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow — On her Tuesday show, Rachel Maddow teased a scoop: She had Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns. It was the first time his federal returns would be released. — Small digression: MSNBC's Maddow didn't have them.
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Associated Press:
TRUMP EARNED $153M AND PAID $36.5M IN TAXES IN 2005
TRUMP EARNED $153M AND PAID $36.5M IN TAXES IN 2005
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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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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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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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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
WH releases Trump tax info ahead of MSNBC report
WH releases Trump tax info ahead of MSNBC report
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Trump made $150 million in 2005 and paid $38 million in federal taxes
Trump made $150 million in 2005 and paid $38 million in federal taxes
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Calls 2005 Tax Return Release ‘Fake News’
Trump Calls 2005 Tax Return Release ‘Fake News’
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Axios, Raw Story, The Guardian, Politicus USA, The Week and NBC News
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Big Trump tax returns “Scoop” flopped, bigly. — Rachel Maddow …
Big Trump tax returns “Scoop” flopped, bigly. — Rachel Maddow …
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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Only 24% of Voters Support GOP Health Care Plan — PPP's newest national poll finds that there is very little support for the American Health Care Act. Only 24% of voters support it, to 49% who are opposed. Even among Republican voters only 37% are in favor of the proposal to 22% who are against it …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Voters wary of GOP health care bill — Nearly half of voters support the new Republican health care bill but the elements they like best are holdovers from the Affordable Care Act, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. — The new survey — conducted in the days following release …
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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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump loyalists sound alarm over ‘RyanCare,’ endangering health bill
Trump loyalists sound alarm over ‘RyanCare,’ endangering health bill
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Politico, New York Times, Daily Kos, Vox, New York Magazine, Breitbart, The Week, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Raw Story, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, TheBlaze, The Root and The Last Tradition
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz: WH plan for ‘third prong’ health legislation won't work in Senate
Cruz: WH plan for ‘third prong’ health legislation won't work in Senate
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
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 …
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Secret Service Has Its Eye on Snoop Dogg Over Video Featuring Mock Trump Shooting — Spokesman for president's security detail tells TheWrap that it's “aware of” rapper's “Lavender” video … A representative for the U.S. Secret Service told TheWrap on Tuesday that the agency …
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump: ‘Failing’ Snoop Dogg Would be in Jail if he Shot Obama in Rap Video
Donald Trump: ‘Failing’ Snoop Dogg Would be in Jail if he Shot Obama in Rap Video
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TMZ.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, IJR and The Guardian
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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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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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon in College: Grateful Dead Fan, ‘Jerry Brown Liberal,’ ‘Ladies Man’ — The Stephen K. Bannon the world knows today is a hard-right nationalist and a former ringleader of far-right, race-baiting media. He's President Donald Trump's anti-immigration and incredibly powerful right-hand man …
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New York Magazine
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Lessons of Obamacare — What Republicans should have learned, but haven't. — On January 6, President Barack Obama sat down with us for one of his final interviews before leaving the White House. The subject was the Affordable Care Act — the legislation that has come to carry his name and define his legacy.
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 …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
The cost of failure on health care? It may be the rest of Trump's agenda. — In the roiling debate over the plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, there's a lot more at stake for President Trump than whether the bill can be saved: Its fate could also determine how much else he can get done …
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The Atlantic
Ken Ward Jr / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
WV Senate bill eliminates mine safety enforcement … State safety inspectors wouldn't inspect West Virginia's coal mines anymore. They would conduct “compliance visits and education.” — Violations of health and safety standards wouldn't produce state citations and fines, either.
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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
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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