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Trump wants the IRS to investigate his foes. That won't play out the way he thinks.
21 Oct 2025 11:04 GMT
… Section 7217 also requires IRS employees to report improper … that IRS employees had given extra scrutiny to groups with “tea party” … and groups he believes IRS investigators should look at. … administration cannot weaponize the IRS against the president’s …
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Blue State Blues: IRS Enforcement Against Left-Wing Groups Is Long Overdue
17 Oct 2025 20:00 GMT
… Lois Lerner and other IRS officials had targeted conservative … effort discouraged newly-active Tea Party organizations for applying for … election.
In contrast, the IRS continued to ignore apparent … be undertaking:
7. Launch IRS investigations of left-wing …
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Reported Changes at the IRS, if Accurate, Should Terrify Us All
17 Oct 2025 16:51 GMT
… agency’s criminal-investigative division (IRS-CI) is already installing … , according to a senior IRS official.
Shapley also told … organizations.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of granting … use of keywords such as “tea party” to choose targets for …
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Trump officials reportedly planning IRS revamp to examine activist groups
17 Oct 2025 03:50 GMT
… allies at the IRS criminal-investigative (IRS-CI) division … is currently the acting IRS commissioner, investigate those … AND TERRORISM CONCERNS
The IRS' criminal-investigative … IRS ISSUES TERMINATION NOTICE TO TOP AIDE LINKED TO OBAMA-ERA TEA PARTY …
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It Sure Looks Like Trump Is About to Weaponize the IRS
17 Oct 2025 01:49 GMT
… appointees control over the IRS’s criminal investigations division. … suggesting or ordering an IRS audit,” Koskinen says. “Putting … by the IRS’s investigation of sketchy tea party groups under … Obama that they set about gutting the IRS …
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‘Massive revamp’: Trump plan to fix IRS includes rooting out those funding ‘nefarious political activities’
17 Oct 2025 01:07 GMT
… leftist administration.
Remember those “Tea Party” organizations whose members were … denied authorization by the IRS, mostly likely because they … October 16, 2025
Interim IRS commissioner Scott Bessent already has … his opinion about the IRS, and I absolutely …
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Trump Brings In Recycled Goon To Make IRS Go After His Enemies Some More
16 Oct 2025 22:07 GMT
… donors and groups he believes IRS investigators should look at. … all that vengeance: the IRS has recently furloughed nearly HALF … looked for words such as ‘tea party’ and ‘patriots’ on organizations’ … on, consider getting an IRS identity protection PIN, which …
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12 mins ago early and often early and often Trump Brings Back Nixon’s Dirtiest Trick: Weaponizing the IRS By Ed Kilgore Like the original paranoid advocate for an imperial presidency, Trump wants to use tax records to punish enemies. Unlike Nixon,…
16 Oct 2025 18:11 GMT
… and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, … thanks to resistance from the IRS itself (which valued its … of conservative groups by the IRS during the Obama administration, … alongside the rise of the Tea Party movement. But even if …
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The Trump Administration Might Shake Up the IRS and the Left Is Freaking
16 Oct 2025 13:44 GMT
… Criminal Investigation Division within the IRS. This, the Journal says … internal lawyers who help IRS agents with specific situations. … President Barack Obama’s IRS went after Tea Party groups, and while … the damage to the Tea Party movement had already been …
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Trump Plans to Use Men With Guns as Part of IRS Campaign Against “Left-Leaning” Groups
16 Oct 2025 11:27 GMT
… IRS under Obama appeared to be giving undue scrutiny to Tea Party … and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, …
The effort within the IRS coincides with a larger … Trump took office, the IRS has faced transformative changes, …