Post by: AngelOfThyNight on July 09, 2022, 06:04:48 AM
It's not yet possible to say, definitively, that the Trump administration engineered the intensive and extensive tax audits of former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy Andrew McCabe, reported Wednesday by the New York Times. The chances that the two men, whom then-President Donald Trump regularly derided on Twitter and at rallies, would have been selected for the rare audits are minuscule, but as the Times has noted, "minuscule does not mean zero." The IRS said in a statement to the Times that "individual audits or taxpayer cases" are "handled by career civil servants" and that IRS commissioner Charles Rettig "has never been in contact with the White House -- in either administration -- on IRS enforcement or individual taxpayer matters."
Source: Comey and McCabe IRS audits are a warning sign (https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/opinions/irs-audit-comey-and-mccabe-weaponizing-administrative-state-hemmer/index.html)