I don’t. I think it is more likely that Trump made IRS do this. Trump treated everything as political. He had no respect for government integrity and impartiality.
update 11/17/22
It’s strange that this story about how Trump allegedly told his chief of staff to sic the IRS on Comey and McCabe – who were later hit with rare intrusive audits – doesn’t name his IRS appointee – Charles Rettig – or mention he finally stepped down Friday.https://t.co/GrF3mGgMr5
— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) November 14, 2022
How unlikely were those Comey-McCabe audits? See for yourself. https://t.co/IRB2PbO1bU
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) July 7, 2022
If you have 154 million marbles (roughly the number of tax returns filed per year), and a few of them are red (including those of James Comey and Andrew McCabe), what are the chances you’ll draw two or more red marbles if you randomly draw a few thousand? https://t.co/64d3VyvevX
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 7, 2022
NEW:
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) July 6, 2022
IRS says for ‘17 it randomly picked 5,000 taxpayers out of 153 million who filed for a highly invasive audit
IRS says for ‘19 it randomly picked 8,000 out of 154 mil for same audit
Among those picked: former FBI dir Jim Comey and his dep. Andy McCabehttps://t.co/AV4MzEoze5
Accountabilty: outrageous that both former FBI Director James Comey & Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were "randomly selected" for most intrusive form of IRS audits under leadership of Trump IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig – this screams for Congressional oversight investigation.
— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) July 7, 2022
NEW: The head of the IRS asks a watchdog to investigate the decision to conduct rare tax audits of former FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe https://t.co/iiJG9cx8VX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 7, 2022
The news that James Comey and Andrew McCabe mysterious got the worst level of IRS audit isn't surprising on one level.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 7, 2022
Authoritarians always turn the power of the state against their enemies.
Last week we learned Mark Meadows tried to get Bill Barr to go after @ProjectLincoln.
Am I correct in understanding that Trump's own IRS commissioner was faster to call for an investigation into this potential abuse of power than the Democratic congressional leaders https://t.co/u6z4dOgQ8i
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) July 7, 2022
Here's my column on the tax audits targeting Comey and McCabe and why Trump's IRS Commissioner – who is still there – needs to be walked out of his office now: https://t.co/UlcTUESbv0 @MSNBC @MSNBCDaily
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) July 9, 2022
Sad! 