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NBC Fuming Over Maddow’s Trump Tax Scoop

By Carlos Greer, Page Six:

Well, that didn’t go so well….

MSNBC’s big “Trump tax return” scoop has caused friction between the cable news network and parent NBC, according to insiders.

“[MSNBC] announced it on Twitter, and [NBC] found out when [the general public] did,” said a source.

“[MSNBC president] Phil Griffin was trying to undermine [NBC News president] Noah Oppenheim. There was never a conversation. They overplayed their hand in a huge way.”

Host Rachel Maddow teased the story on Twitter, then withheld the story till later in her program, revealing in a big ­anticlimax that Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005. “It’s their cable network, but it’s still NBC News…

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