The thing is, you are NOT paranoid if they truly ARE out to get you. IRS opened probe into Matt Taibbi's taxes after Twitter dump
The IRS opened an examination of journalist Matt Taibbi’s 2018 tax return on Christmas Eve of last year — three weeks after he exposed sensitive documents about government officials pressuring Twitter to censor content.
The House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday it obtained that detail and other information about the case from the IRS following the outcry over a tax agent visiting Taibbi’s home on March 9, 2022 — the same day he testified to Congress about the “Twitter Files.”
Because doesn't everyone at the IRS work on Christmas Eve. Since Christmas Eve that year (2022) fell on a Saturday, my guess is that it would not have been a work day. But that is only a guess. Maybe that entire part of the government was hard at work, getting ready to audit reporters who were reporting on the government being up to no good. I'm sure it was just a coincidence. Nothing to see here. Move along!
But really, the IRS was not up to no good! They just wanted to be sure that the reporter in question hadn't been the victim of identity fraud. They sent him letters, which he never got and they could not produce, but trust them! After all, they work for the government.
Jordan’s request for even more records comes as an IRS whistleblower prepares to testify privately Friday before the House Ways and Means Committee about an alleged coverup in the five-year-old tax fraud investigation of first son Hunter Biden.
When there are two sets of rules, you no longer live in a free country.
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