Author: Stephanie Moffat

Trump Names Another Goldman Sachs Executive To His Administration In today’s edition of ‘you didn’t actually believe I was going to drain the swamp,’ Donald Trump has named another Goldman Sachs executive to a senior role in his administration. This will be the fifth Goldman employee to join the Trump administration. James Donovan who is a managing director at Goldman Sachs will serve as deputy Treasury secretary. Other Trump administration officials who came from Goldman Sachs are Steve Bannon, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Gary Cohn and Dina Powell. Trump aggressively railed against Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz about much smaller connections to...

Reporter Who Got Trump Taxes Thinks Trump Could Have Leaked Them Himself As soon as the story of Donald Trump’s tax returns broke speculation grew about who the anonymous source is. The story was published by David Cay Johnston received the tax returns in the mail from an anonymous source. Johnston seemed to think there is a very strong likelihood that it was Trump himself who leaked the returns. “It’s entirely possible that Donald sent this to me,” David Cay Johnston said on The Rachel Maddow Show. “Donald Trump has over the years leaked all sorts of things, the very sleazy girl-on-girl...

DNC: Trump’s Quick Release Of 2005 Taxes Proves ‘Audit Excuse Is A Sham’ On Tuesday evening, the Democratic National Committee blasted Donald Trump for his longstanding claim that he can’t release his taxes because he is under audit. However, after MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced that they had acquired a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return, the White House quickly moved to pre-release the two page tax from before the story aired on MSNBC. The Democratic National Committee aggressively slammed Trump for the hypocrisy. “The White House’s willingness to release some tax information when it suits them proves Donald Trump’s...

Update: BOMBSHELL: Rachel Maddow Unveils Donald Trump’s 2005 Tax Return     According to a report by the Associate Press, the White House released some numbers they claim are associated with Trump’s 2005 return. The White House claims Trump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year, according to the Associate Press. In an update to her earlier tweet, Maddow sent a follow up confirming that they have Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return. Maddow tweeted “What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight...

Republican Senator: Health Plan Not What Trump ‘Promised’ Lousiana Republican Bill Cassidy said Tuesday that the Republican Obamacare replacement bill does not reflect the promises Donald Trump made during the campaign. “That’s not what President Trump promised,” Cassidy said on CNN Tuesday. “That’s not what Republicans ran on.” Senator Cassidy also said that he is concerned that the Trump administration is attempting to discredit the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. “You have to have an umpire, even if the umpire occasionally gets it wrong, because otherwise you are only accepting analysis by people with motivations that define certain answers, and so...