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'Time To Worry': IRS Targeted Biden-Critical Journalist on Two Suspicious Dates, Letter Reveals
Tax agency investigated Matt Taibbi as he was revealing government censorship on Twitter
The IRS targeted journalist Matt Taibbi on two occasions while he was exposing information about censorship efforts by the government and Twitter.
The agency launched an investigation into Taibbi, a liberal journalist who has criticized left-wing censorship of conservative and moderate voices, on December 24, 2022, according to a Wednesday letter from House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio). On that same day, Taibbi was publishing some of the "Twitter Files," internal Twitter emails that show the company coordinating with the government to censor so-called misinformation.
Just months later, on March 9, 2023, Taibbi was testifying in Congress when an IRS agent visited his home. The agency was performing "an extensive investigation" of Taibbi, looking into the journalist's "voter registration records, whether he possessed a hunting or fishing license, whether he had a concealed weapons permit, and his telephone numbers," Jordan's letter revealed.
The investigation, which ostensibly concerned Taibbi's 2018 tax filing, ultimately concluded that Taibbi "did not owe the IRS anything," according to the letter. On the contrary, the IRS owed Taibbi "a substantial refund."
"When the IRS checks to see if you have a carry permit and visits your home, at a time when they owe you money, it's time to worry," Taibbi wrote Wednesday.
Taibbi has been critical of Biden, saying last month that the administration's censorship efforts are "terrifying." He said Wednesday that the visit to his home appears to be "politically motivated."
These occurrences are not the only times that government officials have targeted Taibbi. Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett (V.I.), the ranking member on the House subcommittee on the weaponization of government, last month threatened Taibbi with prison time for mixing up the names of two organizations.
Taibbi's "Twitter Files" revealed extensive censorship at Twitter before Elon Musk took over the company last year. During the 2020 presidential election, former FBI official James Baker advised Twitter to "censor an article about emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop," while federal agencies pressured Twitter to regulate conversation "related to the coronavirus vaccines, Russia, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol."
Jordan said in March that his committee would investigate whether the IRS agent's visit to Taibbi's home "was a thinly veiled attempt to influence or intimidate a witness before Congress." Jordan's Wednesday letter demands that the IRS turn over any documents about its probe into Taibbi by June 7.
Trust in Media Declines: Majority of Voters Agree that the Media Are the ‘Enemy of the People’
A recent poll conducted by Rasmussen found that only 30% of likely U.S. voters trust the political news that they receive, a seven point decrease from July of 2021.
Fifty-two percent of likely U.S. voters now say that do not trust news media, up from 43% when a similar poll conducted in 2021 asked if they “trusted the news media.”
Strikingly, a majority of likely U.S. voters, 59%, say they agree that “The media are ‘truly the enemy of the people?’”
Rasmussen says that its question refers to former President Donald Trump’s 2019 tweet, which specifically restricts “enemy of the people” to “Fake News”:
“In the wake of the 2019 Mueller Report, which found no evidence of the “Russian collusion” the media had hyped, Trump tweeted: ‘Fake News is truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!’” with former President Donald Trump's characterization of “fake news” media as the “enemy of the people.”
Two-thirds (66%) of Republicans believe media coverage of politics favors Democrats and 39% of Democrats also think that the news favors their side, mostly unchanged from 2021.
Broken down by income, voters earning between $30,000 and $50,000 a year are more likely to say that they don’t “trust the political news that they are getting,” while voters earning more than $200,000 are least likely to agree that the media are the “enemy of the people.”
By racial category, 58% of whites, 51% of black voters and 68% of other minorities at least somewhat agree that the media are the “enemy of the people.” However, black voters are less likely to believe that news coverage favors Democrats, but also less likely to trust where they get their news.
One surprising result of the poll is that 45% of government employees today “strongly agree” the media are the enemy of the people, more than entrepreneurs (40%), employees of private companies (33%) and retired Americans (30%). In 2021, when government employees were asked if they “trust the political news” that they were getting, 45% said that they did trust the media.
Rasmussen conducted the survey of 1,002 U.S. likely voters May 16-18, 2023.
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