James Comey and Andrew McCabe were hit by extremely rare 'random' IRS audits after Trump called for

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

their prosecution

On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that former FBI leaders James Comey and Andrew McCabe — whom former President Donald Trump repeatedly called for to be investigated or imprisoned for not running the agency the way he wanted — were targeted for an extremely rare and invasive type of tax audit that the Internal Revenue Service claims is "random."

"The odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are tiny — out of nearly 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, for example, the I.R.S. targeted about 5,000, or roughly one out of 30,600," reported Michael Schmidt. "One of the few who received a bureaucratic letter with the news that his 2017 return would be under intensive scrutiny was James B. Comey, who had been fired as F.B.I. director that year by President Donald J. Trump. Furious over what he saw as Mr. Comey’s lack of loyalty and his pursuit of the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump had continued to rail against him even after his dismissal, accusing him of treason, calling for his prosecution and publicly complaining about the money Mr. Comey received for a book after his dismissal."

"Among those who were chosen to have their 2019 returns scrutinized was the man who had been Mr. Comey’s deputy at the bureau: Andrew G. McCabe, who served several months as acting F.B.I. director after Mr. Comey’s firing," the report continued. "Mr. McCabe was later dismissed by the Trump Justice Department after its watchdog accused him of misleading internal F.B.I. investigators. Like Mr. Comey, he had come to be perceived as an enemy by Mr. Trump, who assailed him, accused him of treason and raised questions about his finances long after pushing for his dismissal and prosecution, a pattern that continued even after Mr. Trump lost the 2020 election and began trying to overturn the results."

The IRS denies that Trump's former IRS commissioner, Charles Rettig, intervened politically against the two. “Commissioner Rettig is not involved in individual audits or taxpayer cases; those are handled by career civil servants,” said the agency in a statement. “As I.R.S. commissioner, he has never been in contact with the White House — in either administration — on I.R.S. enforcement or individual taxpayer matters. He has been committed to running the I.R.S. in an impartial, unbiased manner from top to bottom.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/james-comey-and-andrew-mccabe-were-hit-by-extremely-rare-random-irs-audits-after-trump-called-for-their-prosecution-report/ar-AAZi4Op

Uh huh

[doc03]

1. If they found dead bodies buried in the Rose Garden it wouldn't surprise me nt

[madaboutharry]

2. Yeah, sure.

They think we’re stupid.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Straight out of the Nixon playbook

This amused me. Comey got a refund

Link to tweet

[LisaL]

4. I hope Comey enjoyed his audit.

He deserves it.

[mobeau69]

5. 1 out of 30,600 are the odds for one of them but the odds

that both of them were “randomly” selected is astronomical. I forget how to do the math but the odds are like winning the lottery.

Hopefully some math person will help!

[BlueCheeseAgain]

7. If you picked those two people in advance, and then later found out they were both audited...

In those two years, the probability is less than 1 in 500 million.

However, this is more like you took a list of 5000 people from 2017 and a list of 8000 people from 2019, and looked through them checking for TFG's enemies, and found two prominent people. Given how many enemies TFG, it might not be as bad of a coincidence as it first seems.

[mobeau69]

8. LOL

It wasn’t random. Heads should roll.

[jimfields33]

10. Could care less. Comey screwed hillary.

So now he cries because he was audited. Boo boo.

[mobeau69]

11. You're missing the point. A trumper, possibly under trumps direction, used the power they held at

the IRS to carry out a personal vendetta. That’s abuse of office regardless how we feel about their victims.

[Celerity]

6. Rettig is STILL the IRS Commissioner. He needs to be sacked and investigated.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/commissioner-charles-p-rettig


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rettig

Charles Paul Rettig (born November 18, 1956) is an American attorney who is currently serving as the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

On September 12, 2018, the United States Senate confirmed Rettig's nomination to be Commissioner for the term expiring November 12, 2022. Rettig was sworn in on October 1, 2018.

[uponit7771]

13. +1,

[Novara]

9. Random my ass.

[uponit7771]

14. +1,

[UTUSN]

12. K&R