Did Trump attack political enemies with IRS?

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malchior
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Did Trump attack political enemies with IRS?

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Nothing surprises anymore

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That's some bad luck.

Did you mean to make this a poll?
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Not a surprise. I fully expect Trump delayed his own audits.
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Re: Did Trump attack political enemies with IRS?

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It's fun to think the random IRS audit is run like the lottery in Dragonslayer. Just a bowl jam packed with lots with James Comey's name on them.
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WaPo slinging institutionalist hand waving. The NY Times calculated it at odds closer to winning the Powerball. I'm INCREDIBLY skeptical this is random.
By firing the two men, though, Trump set the pair up to make much more money than they did at the FBI — launching them into a new tax bracket that the IRS examines much more frequently than it does even well-paid government employees.

The odds of both men being pulled into the research program’s audits by coincidence shortly after Trump fired them may seem slim, but former top tax policy officials told The Post they were certain that’s what happened — though they acknowledged that it looked suspicious.

“We like to see patterns, so that’s what we’re seeing,” said Mark Mazur, the Biden administration’s former assistant treasury secretary for tax policy, who previously led the IRS office in charge of the enigmatic research program.

The idea of using the IRS against political adversaries certainly crossed the former president’s mind.
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