http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/09/28/oof-sharyl-attkisson-warns-not-to-give-nyts-trump-tax-bombshell-too-much-credit-because-theyve-been-wrong-a-lot/
Sharyl Attkisson knows the media even better than we do, especially the New York Times.
And she’s spot on here, warning other outlets to be careful about giving this story too much airtime because NYT has a really bad habit of screwing things up. She, of course, said it far more nicely:
Sharyl Attkisson ~ 1-I don't know what @realDonaldTrump pays in taxes. I only know that as wrong as the NYT and others have been, that other media -- if concerned about accuracy -- should think twice about giving much airtime to repeating their claims at this point.
For example ...
Sharyl Attkisson ~ 2-Remember when the story was @realDonaldTrump paid no taxes? And then ...
"2 pages of Trump's '05 tax returns ... showed he paid $38 million in taxes on $150 million in income ... 25.3% ... a higher rate than Obama ... in 2015 ... and ... Bernie Sanders ..."
NYT doesn’t exactly have the best track record.
Think Kavanaugh.
Think 1619.
Think Russian collusion.
Yeah, not good. Not good at all.
Walt In Texas ~ Wasn't that tax return the huge scoop Rachel Maddow thought she had? Turned out to be a huge scoop alright! Nothing!
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Beta Delecta ~ Now that we know it's fraud, we can all stop using losses to offset gains. ...
alexandriabrown ~ So. I finally read the NYT Trump tax story because I wanted to see what line was being reported for taxes owed and I came across this about the $750 in 2016 and 2017. Per the NYT own story, Trump actually paid to the US Treasury $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017.
So he paid in an additional $750.
Not just $750.
But of course, that narrative is already out there. ...
Yep, the willful morons at the Further Freedom From Thought Board have already gobbled up that turd and digested it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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