James Comey and Andrew McCabe, who both served as FBI directors and had disagreements with then-President Donald Trump, were amazingly chosen for “random” IRS deep-dive audits in 2019 and 2021.
Out of more than 150 million annual tax returns, there is an astronomical likelihood that Comey and McCabe will both be chosen at random.
It’s much more likely that they were singled out by someone eager to carry out Trump’s unscrupulous will.
It is unlawful for the IRS to choose which audits it does for political reasons. Until The New York Times made them aware, neither Comey nor McCabe was aware the other was also being audited.
Both of their audit notifications include similar beginning language confirming the audits’ “random” nature. Charles P. Rettig is the head of the IRS, having been chosen by Trump that year.
He promised to fulfil a Trump objective by eliminating more than 2,000 posts after arriving at the IRS.
The tax returns of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, as well as investor Warren Buffett, were leaked by someone at the IRS while Rettig was acting as commissioner.
Rettig was also criticized for failing to reveal more than $1 million in income from renting out hotels with the Trump name during his confirmation hearings.
It follows that Rettig is not an innocent bystander, which is why the IRS’s Thursday probe into Comey and McCabe’s allegedly targeted audits is justified.
According to John A. Koskinen, a former IRS commissioner, “you don’t have to be anti-Trumper to look at this and say it’s questionable.”
Trump targeted Comey and McCabe for several reasons. Republican Comey, who lambasted Trump when he left his position in 2017, had already declined to swear allegiance to Trump, prompting the president-elect to launch a barrage of caustic Twitter assaults.
While simultaneously rejecting Trump’s requests for allegiance, McCabe assumed the role of acting director.
During an investigation into a news media leak that was negative for Trump, he was sacked in 2018.
McCabe was terminated hours before he was eligible for his pension, leaving him with nothing. Trump commended it.
Therefore, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Trump ordered the audits, even if McCabe’s audit occurred months after Trump had left office.
Rettig is still serving as IRS commissioner under President Joe Biden. The offices of Trump and Rettig both denied being aware of the audits.
The current House select committee hearings investigating the Capitol uprising are centred on Trump’s infamous predilection for taking revenge on his detractors.
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The IRS faced criticism under the Obama administration for audits of tea party groups that were thought to be utilizing their tax-exempt status for political activism.
These audits, for which the agency expressed regret, at least had a solid legal foundation.
However, the allegations against Comey and McCabe are almost inexplicably the result of someone merely engaging in harassment to appease a vengeful party.
