To Everyone Rolling Their Eyes Over Maddow's Trump Tax Returns Segment: You're Missing the Point

At 7:36 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Rachel Maddow tweeted that she had Trump’s tax returns. “BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.,” she wrote. “(Seriously).”
Immediately, the anticipation began spreading like wildfire across the Internet. Then, 48 minutes later (which basically feels like eons in 2017), Maddow shared in a second tweet that she only had a 1040 tax form (where a person’s gross income and deductions are entered) from 2005: