Jon Favreau

Scott Besant is already the acting IRS commissioner.

He's on board and they want Gary Shapley to run the criminal division.

He's a loyalist and he's reportedly already drawn up a list of left leaning groups.

They want to bankrupt by, you know, putting them through these very long and invasive investigations as well as individual major Democratic donors.

They want to put through the hell of a criminal investigation.

This seems like a huge fucking deal, incredibly dangerous.

I feel like with everything else going on, it's being treated as just another crazy story.

What's your level of concern on this one?

And it's worse in another way, too.

Like this would be bad and illegal if the IRS was simply targeting the president's critics and people the president doesn't like for an audit or an investigation.

They're trying to go a step further and saying, OK, in order to take away a group's tax exempt status, which for many groups would bankrupt them.

In order to do that, you have to have an investigation.

The investigation goes on for a long time and maybe it's unpleasant for the group.

But like at the end of the investigation, you don't lose your tax exempt status unless they actually find something wrong.

They are trying to change this.

So they skip the whole very long investigation part and just are able to take away the tax exempt status much more easily.

And they're also sort of shifting the balance of power in the IRS so that all the people in the IRS who are lawyers, who are accountants, whose job it is to collect taxes and stuff like that are overpowered by the criminal division, which, again, are the agents with the guns.

And then you've got Scott Besson also talking about he's like comparing the hunt for, you know, terrorist financing, which is like left leaning groups that they're calling Antifa that might find it something.

They're comparing it with going after Al Qaeda's networks, financing networks after 9-11 on the Charlie Kirk show this week.

It's like, do you think he believes that?