Trump discussed having the IRS and other federal agencies investigate two FBI officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, John Kelly says in a sworn statement. @nytmike https://t.co/IIhuPpY19B
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 8, 2023
I remember when, during the Obama years, there was an IRS scandal that turned out not to be one at all--someone at the agency noticed there was a whole ton of new 501 (c) 3 and 4 orgs cropping up and wondered if they were all legitimate non-profits and not actually political and gave that paperwork more scrutiny. It turned out, they weren't even targeting specifically conservative organizations but certain keywords, that included "occupy" as well. The IRS apologized and settled with the organizations and processed all their applications.
Anyway, conservatives acted like this was the worst, top-down oppression against conservative institutions by the Obama Administration in cahoots with the Deep State that anyone ever saw. It wasn't. But I'm pretty sure the legend remains in the minds of the people who always think the Deep State is in cahoots with Democratic presidential administrations.
Anyway, Trump personally wanted to sic the IRS on people he didn't like. I'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN the anti-government weaponization folks in the Freedumb Caucus will get right on that, of course?
Heh. The House weaponization fixation is about using Congressional oversight (and your tax money) to investigate Biden. No amount of money (they seem to believe) should ever investigate the guy who lied about the 2020 election, cause an insurrection attempt, and stole classified documents. But they will absolutely get on the lil' baggie of blow and Hunter Biden, because absolutely no one in the White House staff, or with the WH press correspondents, or a tourist from anywhere outside of the White House, even has some coke and smile anymore.
I'm just saying sometimes the hypocrisy really hits one in the face. Or it should hit somebody...
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the real IRS scandal was that the gop groups WERE political, breaking tax-law.
also, kinda funny how the coke scandal broke literally the DAY after raskin proved on TAPE that biden was completely innocent of taking burisma bribes.
just funny. like, the fascist gop is relentless. incompetent, but relentless. USSS needs to be pulled from DHS posthaste and returned to treasury or given their own autonomy. housecleaning MUST occur in that agency.
One of the arguments the Tea Party people were making out load where people could hear was that the delay in their getting set up probably cost the 2012 election--f they weren't political, how could that be? Of course, Tea Party folks were there at the ellipse on 1/6-probably something they'd just been waiting for forever.
Anyways, I don't feel the GOP would let a little thing like the truth get in the way of further investigation of the Bidens.
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