Rachel Maddow teases that she has 'Trump tax returns'
Just 90 minutes before the start of her Tuesday night show, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow made a bombshell announcement on Twitter: She has Trump tax returns.
She didn't specifically write the name "President Trump," so they could belong to one of his sons, like Donald Trump Jr., daughter Ivanka Trump, or maybe even a random guy named Ronald Trump, but since people have been clamoring for Donald Trump to release his tax returns for nearly two years now, expect to see Maddow win her time slot tonight.
Update: About an hour after her first tweet, Maddow posted again, this time with more information on what she'll be sharing on her show. "What we've got is from 2005...the President's 1040 form...details to come..."
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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