'We Broke the Story Correctly': Rachel Maddow Returns Fire on Her Trump Tax Scoop [View all]

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‘We Broke the Story Correctly’: Rachel Maddow Returns Fire on Her Trump Tax Scoop

Critics rounded on Rachel Maddow for the way she broke her Trump tax story on MSNBC. She tells The Daily Beast, ‘The only thing I can be focused on is getting the story right.’

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03.15.17 5:33 PM ET

The morning after Rachel Maddow disclosed a portion of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return—a scoop accorded front-page treatment by The New York Times and whined about by Trump and the White House, but also panned in certain journalistic circles for alleged overhyping in the cheesy tradition of reality shows—Maddow had no regrets.

“When you’re in the middle of a big story that’s getting national attention, you expect people to throw all sorts of stuff around,” she told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “Honestly, the thing I’m focused on, and the only thing I can be focused on, is getting the story right. I’m really, really, really psyched that we broke this story.”

Maddow added: “This is the first tax return we have from the president, and it’s really important that he hasn’t released his taxes. And there are real concerns—of a small, medium, and large variety—about why he ought to release his taxes. And if this is available, we might expect other tax documents to be made available, too, and this will continue to haunt him through his presidency until he releases more full financial information.”

While Maddow is entitled to take pride in bringing new information to the ongoing discussion of President Trump’s business and financial conduct, she has also been the target of criticism for the manner in which she did it—staging a tantalizing big buildup that her detractors suggested amounted to overpromising and under-delivering.

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